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Federal Laboratory in California to Again House World's Largest Computer.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2002
By Andrea Widener, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 19--Lawrence Livermore Laboratory will once again be home to the world's largest computer under a new agreement to purchase two massive supercomputers from IBM, the Secretary of Energy will announce today.
For the first time, the largest of those computers will be available for unrestricted research on biology, materials and climate at a laboratory where the largest computers have traditionally been used for weapons science.
The two computers, one for classified research and one for open science, will have a combined speed of 460 trillion calculations per second, more than the current top 500 computers combined. That is 20 times larger...
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