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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center received $45 million to operate the most powerful nonmilitary computer in the world.

The Terascale Computing System is the size of a basketball court and can predict weather, map chemical body reactions, and model earthquakes. The system has 10,000 times the memory of an average computer and the capacity to perform six trillion calculations per second. Terascale technology could someday allow scientists to watch formerly unobservable phenomena such as star birth and other astronomic events.




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