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| The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa is one of the leading scientific and technology research, development and implementation organisations in Africa. It undertakes directed research and development for socio-economic growth. |
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- As of July 2009, the IBM Roadrunner, located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is the fastest supercomputer in the world at 1.026 PFLOPS.
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The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known computer systems in the world according to their LINPACK benchmark results (a measure of a system's floating point computing power), and is updated twice a year.
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The supercomputing power at the Centre for High Performance Computing ranks it first in Africa; it now features in the TOP500.
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Special-purpose supercomputers have been built: Belle, Deep Blue, and Hydra for playing chess; GRAPE for astrophysics and molecular dynamics.
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