The company IBM plans to build a supercomputer Sequoia, capacity would be 20 petaflop (quadrillion operations per second), reports Vnunet. It will be located in the Livermore National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
According to the publication, Sequoia will include 1.6 million processors. The amount of RAM the system will be 1.6 terabytes. The area, which will occupy Sequoia, will be 318 square meters.
It is anticipated that the Sequoia supercomputer to run in 2012. It will be used for the study of nuclear weapons, in particular for the simulation of the tests.
Representatives of IBM emphasize, Sequoia can be used for peaceful purposes. In particular, the supercomputer is capable of simulating weather changes 40 times faster than currently used systems. To simulate the earthquake he would need 50 times less time than the current computing capacity.
Currently, the most powerful supercomputers in the world is the IBM Roadrunner, the performance of which is 1105 petaflop. In addition, in November 2008, the U.S. launched another supercomputer with a capacity above petaflopa - Jaguar. In 2011 supercomputer will run petaflopovy Chinese.
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