Beskow fast as in the Nordic countries – Västervikstidningen

Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) is expecting – at Beskow. In October arrives namely university’s latest supercomputer, named after the author Elsa Beskow.

The new computer’s processing capacity is almost two so-called petaflop, ie almost two trillion floating point operations per second. It thus becomes Scandinavia’s fastest computer for academic purposes.

For the special interest may be mentioned that the computer is a Cray XC30 with the 1676 so-called nodes of a computer’s memory about 104.7 terabytes.

But quality costs money. The budget is 170 million,

spread over four years.

The computer will be used for such diverse things as fluid dynamics, climate modeling, plasma physics, neuroscience, and materials research.