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U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiled
« on: January 15, 2008, 08:47:00 AM »
Hector handles 63 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktops. But it can't touch Blue Gene/L.   The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the U.K. has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Hector--or the High-End Computing Terascale Resource--can handle 63 trillion calculations per second, which is...

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