New Supercomputers Calculate at Trillions of Operations per Second

The first modules of a new research supercomputer being assembled at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory bring the U.S. Energy Dept. a giant step closer to a decade-long objective: simulating what happens to materials during a nuclear-weapon detonation. Called "BlueGene/L," the massively parallel...

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