Supercomputer joins fight against AIDS

That level of power can generate about one billion mathematical equations per second -- saving hundreds of hours in human calculations and precious time for millions of Africans suffering from fatal disease in need of innovative solutions.

The supercomputer was donated by Intel Cooperation to the CSIR, a government arm tasked with leading scientific and technology research.

The supercomputer can reveal how disease jumps from one person to the next and then track its movement throughout the body.

It has the potential to predict how the immune system of a sick person would react to drugs and analyzes the building blocks of life like genetic activity and protein structure for new medical clues.

Supercomputer joins fight against AIDS

That level of power can generate about one billion mathematical equations per second -- saving hundreds of hours in human calculations and precious time for millions of Africans suffering from fatal disease in need of innovative solutions.

I'd say it's a pretty quick human if s/he can beat a teraflop machine in "hundreds of hours" (without "cheating")....

It sounds from the description like it's a 64 CPU (or perhaps 64 x 2 CPU) rack cluster, which is indeed a nice system, but not really comparable to a REAL super computer. I can only surmise that South Africa aren't quite as used to clusers as we are here in Europe.

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Mats

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