The fastest supercomputer in the world

IBM's Sequoia has surpassed China's Galaxy 1A and Japan's K computer to return to the top spot in the supercomputer race.

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With 1.57 million processors and can perform 16.32 trillion calculations per second, Sequoia helped the United States return to the top spot in the field of supercomputing after two years with China and Japan. overcoming

In particular, Sequoia is 1.55 times faster than the Japanese supercomputer K computer and 4.5 times faster than the Chinese supercomputer A1.

Developed in February 2009 for the US Nuclear Security Commission, this IBM supercomputer is currently located at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory.

According to Independent, the IBM Sequoia supercomputer will be used to simulate nuclear explosions, thereby saving huge funds for US nuclear tests.