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Exascale computers can perform one quintillion (a billion, billion) operations per second. Only one, in the USA, is currently known to exist
The UK government has allocated £900 million towards the creation of a new supercomputer, in an effort to bolster the competitiveness of UK developers in the global market.
The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, revealed the news in the Budget on Wednesday, announcing funds for constructing an exascale supercomputer - several times more powerful than the largest computers in t...
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