The IBM company logo is pictured during the Viva Tech start-up and technology summit in Paris, France, May 25, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The US has a new supercomputer and it’s twice as fast as the current record holder in China.
International Business Machines Corp. developed the Summit computer, with help from Nvidia Corp, for the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The system cost about US$200mil (RM797.70mil) to build, will occupy a warehouse the size of two tennis courts and be put to work on super-complex calculations that could lead to breakthroughs in fields from astrophysics to cancer research, the lab said in a statement.
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