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UK unleashes its fastest supercomputer

by Leo Blanco on Jan 15, 2008 at 10:11 PM

Hector SuperComputer

Meet High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR), a colossal machine newly hailed as the fastest supercomputer in the UK and also one of the most powerful in all of Europe.

Cased in 60 cabinets inside the University of Edinburgh, this £113 ($221 US) million monster is as powerful as 12,000 desktop computers combined and can run 63 million calculations per second.

In case you’re wondering about the usefulness of this ultra-fast supercomputer aside from bragging rights around world, then you must know that scientists are very excited to maximize its power in several research projects including combustion engines, new medicines, superconductors, ocean currents, climate change, atomic physics, cosmology and other “increasingly complex computer simulations”.

Read [Reuters]

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