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“IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S.
Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed
of 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the
department said on Wednesday.“The new [Red Hat-based] computer, dubbed ‘Roadrunner,’ will be
built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico…”
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