Big-league computing
Two new supercomputers at U.S. Department of Energy weapons laboratories are capable of calculating at a world-record pace of 3 trillion or more operations per second.
References:
Additional information about the Department of Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative is available at http://www.www.llnl.gov/asci/.
Preliminary results of calculations using the supercomputer Blue Pacific can be found at http://www.llnl.gov/asci/news/SST_Early_Science.html.
Further Readings:
Computing nuclear crash and burn scenarios. Science News 152(July 5):5.Peterson, I. 1997.
______. 1997. Computer triumphs over human champion. Science News 151(May 17):300.
______. 1997. Reaching 1 trillion calculations per second. Science News 151(Jan. 4):7.
______. 1996. Sparking fusion. Science News 150(Oct. 19):254.
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12,
1998, p. 383.
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