IBM just introduced its new supercomputer, BlueGene, this week. It's hard not to be astonished by the new device, which can handle 1,000 billion calculations a second, the equivalent of 100,000 PCs in computing power, or, for those who like graphic descriptions, of a stack of P.C.'s 1.5 miles high.
Drug development, especially in biotech, will be the primary beneficiaries of this computer which took five years and $100 million to develop. Click here to watch Bloomberg's interview with chief architect and designer Jim Sexton.
The company plans to roll out a computer with 10 times the power in three to four years.
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