How fast is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory?
If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day.
That makes the $100 million computer, nicknamed "Jaguar" by scientists, the fastest in the world for unclassified scientific research.
At more than 1 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, it is about 55,000 times faster than your typical PC.
Only one other supercomputer is faster, and it's devoted to classified research on nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Global climate change, space matter that can't be seen, and alternative energy - everything from improved gasoline combustion to fusion - are some of the subjects Jaguar will be used to research.
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