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Los Alamos has world's fastest supercomputer

Reuters: A computer designed to run virtual tests of U.S. nuclear weapons will be the world's fastest, making 1,000 trillion calculations per second, the U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday.

Posted by Physics Today on June 10, 2008 10:41 AM |

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