© unknownUniversity of Toronto's $50-million supercomputer – the fastest such machine in Canada – goes online to improve research potential
It has taken a year and $50-million to put together, and its brain takes up as much room as a warehouse full of refrigerators.
Today, the monster finally opens its eyes, as the University of Toronto's newest supercomputer - the fastest such machine in Canada - goes online.
There's no shortage of beastly metrics by which this computer's power can be measured: It can perform more than 300 trillion calculations a second, simulate the Earth's climate 100 years into the future in four days and help researchers study cosmic background radiation, a calculation-intensive task that offers a glimpse into what the universe looked like 13 billion years ago.