IBM building world's fastest supercomputer in Minnesota

Mike Good and Kevin Collins from IBM, posed in front of what will be the housing for Mira.

According to a recent post on StarTribune.com, IBM has drawn up plans to build what will be, the world's fastest supercomputer, with a processing capacity 4 times that of the closest competitor, the Tianhe-1A in China.

The "Mira", as it will be called, will be built in Rochester Minnesota, at an expected cost of 50 million dollars, with well over 750,000 individual processors. When Mira is finally operational, IBM plans to use it to develop things such as, new batteries for electric cars, new drugs, or even nuclear weapons.

(StarTribune.com)

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