Inside the Briefcase
The Secret Life of Sequoia
July 10, 2012 No CommentsSOURCE: TechNewsWorld
After winning top honors as the fastest supercomputer in the world — for now, anyway — IBM’s Sequoia is getting ready to go to work for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Its duty: help manage the United States supply of nuclear weapons. “Much of the modeling for defense, aerospace, medical research and anticipating natural disasters is done on supercomputers,” said analyst Rob Enderle.
