Chucaro
31st July 2013, 12:21 PM
The nation's most powerful computer has been unveiled at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-31/australias-largest-super-computer-unveiled-in-canberra/4855902)
Researchers at the ANU say the computer can perform the same number of calculations in one hour that 7 billion people with calculators could perform in 20 years.
ANU Professor Lindsay Botten says the computer itself is bigger than the size of a house.
"It has 57,000 processing cores which is something like 15,000 ordinary personal computers [PCs]," he said.
"It has 160 terabytes of memory which is like 40,000 ordinary PCs.
"It has 10,000 terabytes of disk which would be like 10,000 ordinary PCs."
"If every person on the face of the earth had a desk calculator and they worked for a week or two weeks, 12 hour days, this machine would do that work in a second," he said.
Researchers at the ANU say the computer can perform the same number of calculations in one hour that 7 billion people with calculators could perform in 20 years.
ANU Professor Lindsay Botten says the computer itself is bigger than the size of a house.
"It has 57,000 processing cores which is something like 15,000 ordinary personal computers [PCs]," he said.
"It has 160 terabytes of memory which is like 40,000 ordinary PCs.
"It has 10,000 terabytes of disk which would be like 10,000 ordinary PCs."
"If every person on the face of the earth had a desk calculator and they worked for a week or two weeks, 12 hour days, this machine would do that work in a second," he said.