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Here’s a number to wrap your brain around: 556 trillion. That’s a million times a million times 556. And that’s how many calculations a new supercomputer at Argonne National Lab will be able to do, every second once it’s up to full speed. The lab is dedicating its Argonne Leadership Computing Facility today, which houses the massive IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer. Scientists there hope to use it to model the earth’s climate, peer into our DNA and comprehend the farthest reaches of the cosmos. It’s the DuPage County lab’s latest foray on the bleeding edge of scientific research.
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