The American government has planned to buy 2 supercomputers from IBM.
One of which will be used in 2012 making the total of 20 petaflops in all. This will, according to an estimate, work 20 times faster than any of the most powerful systems available today.
These systems, classified as IBM BlueGene-class, will be used for U.S nuclear analysis.
They will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where IBM BlueGene/L systems are currently used. One of the IBM BlueGene/P systems will be delivered in April.
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