IBM To Build Supercomputer For U.S. Government
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 14:21
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. Government has contracted out IBM to build a massive supercomputer bigger than any supercomputer out there. The supercomputer system, called Sequoia, will be capable of delivering 20 petaflops (1,000 trillion sustained floating-point operations per second) and is being built for the U.S. Department of Energy.