Australia unveils its most powerful super computer Raijin - Indian Express

PTI : Melbourne, Wed Jul 31 2013, 11:02 hrs Australia's most powerful super computer, Raijin, was today unveiled in Canberra. Raijin, named after the Japanese God of thunder and rain, has cost $45.2 million to build and will cost USD 10.85 million a year to run, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. The super computer, unveiled at Australian National University (ANU), is said to be the 27th most powerful computer in the world, it said. ANU researchers said the computer can perform the same number of calculations in one hour that 7 billion people with calculators could perform in 20 years. Raijin is a part of the new National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) facility at the campus. ANU scientist Lindsay Botten said the computer itself is bigger than the size of a house. "It has 57,000 processing cores which is something like 15,000 ordinary personal computers [PCs]. It has 160 terabytes of memory which is like 40,000 ordinary PCs. It has 10,000 terabytes of disk which would be like 10,000 ordinary PCs," he said. Botten said it will encourage weather scientists and climate change researchers to stay in Australia instead of taking their careers overseas. "It keeps Australia at the forefront of global innovation and opens up new horizons for science and research," he said. ALSO READ MEAIndia app tops Apple Store Smartphone maker HTC reports 83% drop in Q2 profit Free mobile phone scheme back on table Heavy cell phone use could lead to cancer: Israeli study Please read our terms of use before posting comments TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s). via Science - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGbNuXPjWAw0WK8LCcWT64dxG8zPA&url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/australia-unveils-its-most-powerful-super-computer-raijin/1149149/

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