Germany churns out Europe's most powerful computer
Europe's most powerful computer is here. The system showcased at the Juelich Research Centre, Germany has a whopping processing speeds of 46 teraflops, equivalent to 46 trillion operations a second making it 15,000 times faster than the average home PC. Though, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) claims to have already installed a Bull machine with a speed of 50-teraflop.
The model, based on IBM's Blue Gene machine, will enable scientists and researchers to make compound calculations including stock market analysis and weather forcasting.
Currently the IBM Blue Gene (pictured above) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Department of Energy laboratory, California is the world's most powerful computer with speed of 367 teraflops per second.
