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Giant byte

Published on
July 5, 1996
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Researchers at Cambridge University are to benefit from a Hitachi supercomputer that will be one of the most powerful computers in the United Kingdom. With a peak performance of 29 Gflops and memory in excess of 24 GBytes, the computer will be used for research in areas such as astrophysics, biochemistry, modelling combustion and seismology.

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