10 Top Expensive Super Computers in the world

6. Sequoia BlueGene/Q (US) – $250 million

The petascale BlueGene/Q supercomputer Sequoia was developed by IBM, again for the NNSA, as part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. It was deployed in June 2012 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where it immediately became the world’s fastest supercomputer, according to TOP500.org. It currently sits in the number three spot, with a theoretical peak of 20 PFLOPS, or 20 trillion calculations per second.
Sequoia was the first supercomputer to cross 10 petaFLOPS of sustained performance, and some record-breaking science applications have been run on the system. For instance, the Cardioid code – a project that models the electrophysiology of the human heart – achieved nearly 12 PFLOPS with a real-time simulation. Other purposes of the computer are to study astronomy, energy, human genome, climate change, and of course nuclear weapons.
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