UK unleashes its fastest supercomputer

Meet High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR), a colossal machine newly hailed as the fastest supercomputer in the UK and also one of the most powerful in all of Europe. Cased in 60 cabinets inside the University of Edinburgh, this £113 ($221 US) million monster is as powerful as 12,000 desktop computers combined and can run more »