Lightning Calculations.
The launch of China's Tianhe-1 petaflop supercomputer could revolutionize the development of supercomputers. Debuted in September 2009, Tianhe-1 is capable of a peak speed of 1.206 quadrillion operations per second. The project was started in 2008 with an investment of approximately $88 million by...
| Publicado en: | Beijing Review Vol. 52; no. 51; pp. 42 - 43 |
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Beijing Review
December 24 2009
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