IBM's 'Sequoia' beats Japan's 'K machine', running 1.55 times faster while being 15 per cent more energy efficient Computer - which is nearly 300,00 times faster than machines from 20 years ago - will be used for nuclear studies <\/p>\n
By Eddie Wrenn <\/p>\n
PUBLISHED: 12:06 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 13:11 EST, 18 June 2012 <\/p>\n
In the super-computing league table, the U.S. has reclaimed 'top spot' from China. <\/p>\n
IBM's Sequoia computer, which is 1.55 times faster than China's previous record-breaker, the Fujitsu K Computer, was installed and switched on at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. <\/p>\n
Throwing evidence behind Moore's Law - which dictates that computers get twice as powerful and twice as small every 18 months - the new super-computer is a powerful machine. <\/p>\n
It can perform - in less than a second - calculations which would take the super computers of 1993 three days to solve. <\/p>\n
In fact, the IBM team say it is 273,930 times more powerful than the 1993 machine - called the CM-5\/1024 and created by American firm Thinking Machines. <\/p>\n
The Sequoia: This grey slab is just part the most powerful computer on the planet, and will be used in nuclear power research, with perhaps a game or two of chess on the side <\/p>\n
The BBC reports that Sequoia is capable of calculating, in one hour, 'what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years.' <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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