New York State’s University of Rochester now sports the world’s fastest computer dedicated to medical research. The IBM Blue Gene/Q clocks in at 172-teraflops (172 trillion floating point operations per second), according to the Poughkeepsie Journal, making it one of the fastest computers in a university setting.
The goal of the project is to be able to crunch through massive amounts of data that are being collected in laboratory research and electronically through digital health records.
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Poughkeepsie Journal: New IBM device may speed up medical research