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Nasa set to join petaflop elite

BBC News: Nasa is making a bid to join the elite group using supercomputers whose power is measured in petaflops.

By 2009 the US space agency aims to be running a petaflop supercomputer that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

By 2012 it hopes to have boosted the power of this machine to 10 petaflops, to help with modelling and simulation. The new supercomputer will be at the Ames research center at Moffet Field, California.

Posted by Physics Today on May 12, 2008 10:15 AM |

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