The fastest supercomputer in the world is coming

The US National Science Foundation has funded $ 27 million to the Texas Computer Center at the University of Texas to create the world's fastest new supercomputer in 2013.

Once completed, supercomputers can perform 10 million million operations per second, becoming one of the fastest computers on the planet. Even Watson's IBM computer, the supercomputer that won the 'Jeopardy' computer competition, has much less speed.

The University of Texas supercomputer is monitored by the app
from earthquakes to sea level rise due to melting ice (Photo: CNN)

Currently, the world's fastest computer is a K supercomputer, at the Kobe, Japan ITnhs Institute at a rate of 8,162 petaflop. With a theoretical maximum speed of 10 petaflops, Stampede's new supercomputer will surpass K.

Supercomputers at the University of Texas have been used to track everything from the global impact of the Japanese earthquake in March to the phenomenon of ice melting in Antarctica that will raise such sea levels. Come on.

Supercomputers are an open research revolution in the global scientific community, based on the idea that scientific knowledge and access to supercomputers - are publicly shared and available to everyone. TACC scientists estimate that, once the Stampede system is completed, it will help promote more than 1,000 different studies each year. Time on the system will be free, but access will be granted based on a nationality table of scientists.