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The world’s 10 fastest supercomputers

Los Alamos and Oak Ridge laboratories break the petaflop barrier.

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Red Storm, one of four Cray supercomputers to make the top 10, helped the US Navy shoot down a failed satellite with a single missile strike early this year, and is also used to certify the reliability of the US nuclear weapons stockpile without underground testing.