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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
This Is Your Computer on Brains - Michelle Delio, Wired
The fastest supercomputers in the world are complete slackers compared with the processing power of the human brain. But that's about to change. The U.S Department of Energy announced Tuesday that IBM has won a $290 million contract to build two of the first computers capable of equaling the theoretical processing power of the human brain. The combined processing power of the two computers will be half a quadrillion (500 trillion) calculations per second, more than 1.5 times the combined processing power of all 500 machines on the recently released Top 500 list of supercomputers.
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