Meep meep! The newest, fastest supercomputer

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Yesterday IBM made history with a computer that crossed the one thousand quadrillion individual floating point operators (pedaflop) threshold. It is twice as fast as the computer that was the fastest just a few days ago.
Guest: Jack Dongarra, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee

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