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South Africa will be three times smarter from this week.
A supercomputer, able to make 14 trillion calculations per second, has been donated to the country’s scientific fraternity for use in the fight against HIV/Aids and other human ills.
Dubbed Blue Gene, the R17-million brainbox is the biggest computer in Africa.
It will be switched on in Cape Town and made available to African institutions free of charge for use in advanced scientific projects.
The project owes its existence to IBM’s Global Innovation Outlook process, which seeks to build scientific and technical capability in Africa.
Sean McLean, IBM’s spokesperson in South Africa, said the supercomputer was best suited to research involving huge amounts of data that needed rapid processing.
“ It would be nice to have an African researcher … stand up in the near future and claim a breakthrough in an Africa-specific problem,” said McLean.
Blue Gene will be kept at the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, set up by the Department of Science and Technology, and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
The computer will also help scientists model the effects of climate change.
“There have been advances in the rest of the world in getting climate-change data, but (Africa hasn’ t) done much ,” said CHPC director Dr Happy Sithole.
