Staff at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano (CSCS) say 'Alps' could rank even higher today as it wasn’t completed when the rankings were put together in June.
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00:00Switzerland has unveiled its new supercomputer ALPS, one of the most powerful machines of
00:07its kind in the world.
00:09In the top 500 list of global supercomputers published in June, the high-performance ALPS
00:14computer came in at number six.
00:17Its focus is on science, and it performs calculations for medicine, space research and climatology.
00:23The Swiss National Supercomputing Center says it would take a standard laptop 40,000 years
00:29to carry out the calculations that ALPS can do in a day.