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Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Bigger, faster, stronger

By Nick Heath

Published: Monday 17 November 2008

At number three on the supercomputer list is the Nasa Ames Research Centre Pleiades supercomputer.

Weighing in at 487 teraflops the SGI Altix ICE system, seen here, is used to simulate and model future space missions.

The system relies on 47,104 quadcore processors and is named after an open star cluster.

Photo credit: Nasa Ames Research Center/Marco Librero