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 BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Europe's fastest supercomputer — an IBM that can make 40 trillion calculations per second — booted up for the first time Tuesday at a research center in Barcelona.
The so-called MareNostrum computer boasts 40 teraflops of speed, which in layman's terms means it can make more calculations than a human pecking at a calculator could make in 10 million years.
Its memory is equal to the combined memories of nearly 20,000 personal computers, and its storage system has a capacity of 233 terabytes, the equivalent of the information that could be found in 29 million books.
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