China has built a super computer that can perform 1,000 trillion calculations (a petaflop) per second using it’s own microprocessor chips. This advance has surprised industry specialists in the US and abroad. This new super computer will now rank as one of the top 20 fastest computers in the world. The computer is composed of 8,700 ShenWei [...]

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The National Ignition Facility in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory performed a successful test of the controlled fusion experiments using all 192 lasers. This test did not utilize the full power of the system. Higher power tests will begin in May. One of the concerns that this test alleviated was that the plasma produced by [...]

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