IBM to develop fastest computer for US government
IBM says that the US Govt. has commissioned it to develop the world’s fastest computer.
This new computer will be used to watch over US nuclear weapons and it will perform more than 20,000 trillion calculations in every second.
IBM will bring its new Sequoia technology in this computer and it will be ready for use by the end of 2011.
This new computer will consume as much energy as five average households and it will be placed in a 34,22 square feet building to handle the information, it will have to process.
This computer has 1.6 million microprocessors and it needs to be refrigerated constantly.
IBM is quite well-known for creating supercomputers. They have already built the present day fastest computer that has been placed at the DOE Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.
Aside from providing better protection to the US nuclear weapons, the supercomputer will also be used to conduct more researches on the human genome, astronomy and climate change.
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