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The world’s 10 fastest supercomputers

Los Alamos and Oak Ridge laboratories break the petaflop barrier.

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Named after Benjamin Franklin, this system at Lawrence Berkeley's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center was designed for incredibly detailed simulations and analysis of massive amounts of data. Installation of the supercomputer last year increased the computational power available to scientists by a factor of six.