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New lab to build 1 million trillion ‘flops’ computer

Submitted by Layer 8 on Fri, 02/22/08 - 10:56am.

Researchers Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories this week said they are building a 1 million trillion ‘flops’ computer that would perform a million trillion calulations per second.

An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers —the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia — currently are the state of the art. They do trillions of calculations a second, the group said.

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