{"id":547167,"date":"2005-11-01T07:38:26","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T07:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547167-supercomputer-doubles-own-record.html"},"modified":"2005-11-01T07:38:26","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T07:38:26","slug":"supercomputer-doubles-own-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547167-supercomputer-doubles-own-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer doubles own record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">It reached 280.6 teraflops &#8211; 280.6 trillion calculations a second &#8211; the equivalent of each person in the world with a handheld calculator taking decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The IBM machine, unveiled by Linton F Brooks from the National Nuclear Security Administration at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last Friday, officially became the most powerful computer on the planet in June. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The completed Blue Gene\/L joins another supercomputing team-mate, called ASC Purple, to get to work on safeguarding the US&#8217;s nuclear stockpile. Purple can do 100 teraflops while it carries out simulations of nuclear weapons performance. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Gene\/L supercomputer has broken its own record to achieve more than double the number of calculations it can do a second, reports the BBC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}