Thanks to Universe
Today
.  I wonder if Doom
would be any good on this…

"NASA unveiled its new supercomputer
on Tuesday, which took the lead as the fasted computer in the world. Named
"Columbia", to commemorate the space shuttle, the supercomputer
is built up from 10,240 Itanium 2 processors, and is capable of 42.7 teraflops
(trillion calculations per second). Columbia is so powerful that scientists
used it to accurately predict the path of hurricanes five days in advance.
Complex aircraft analysis that used to take years can now be performed
in a single day. Amazingly, the computer was built and installed in only
120 days at NASA’s Ames Research Center."

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