Mountain View - NASA has announced that a supercomputer at Ames Research Center has been ranked as the third fastest in the world. The Pleiades supercomputer contains almost 13,000 Intel Xeon processors and runs 487 trillion operations per second.
Scientists and engineers at Ames use the supercomputer for tasks that vary from designing future space vehicles to developing detailed models of how galaxies evolve.
The top two supercomputers are located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Oakridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The nine fastest supercomputers in the world are all built and located in the US with a Chinese supercomputer located in Shanghai being the only foreign machine to crack the top 10.
