PetaFLOPS Computing.

The article discusses the use of PetaFLOPS computers in understanding the functions of biological molecules. PetaFLOPS computers are capable of performing a thousand trillion mathematical operations per second and are 25 times faster than the largest supercomputers. The effort to create PetaFLOPS co...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 47; no. 11; pp. 42 - 46
Main Authors:	Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu, Germain, Robert, Taiji, Makoto
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2004
Subjects:	Petaflops computers Biomolecules International Business Machines Corp. Microprocessors Parallel programming Supercomputers
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