A supercomputer capable of doing a billion calculations each second has been installed at the University of Portsmouth, enabling cosmologists to test our understanding of the origin of galaxies and of gravity itself. The supercomputer, named 'SCIAMA', has a 1008 Intel core cluster, which represents the equivalent strength of approximately 1,000 desktop systems, 2 Gbytes of memory per core, 85 Tbytes of fast parallel storage and uses 2.66GHz Intel Xeon processors. It is designed to receive, process and present large amounts of astronomical data very quickly.
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