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Supercomputing Poised For a Massive Speed Boost
Japan's K supercomputer iscurrently tenth-fastest on the Top500 list, but firstby an alternativemeasure.
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At the end of July, workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began filling up a cavernous room with the makings of a computational behemoth: row upon row of neatly stacked computing units, some 290 kilometres of fibre-optic cable and a cooling system capable of carrying a swimming pool's worth of water.
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