The machine has doubled speeds achieved by the previous fastest supercomputer, the IBM Blue Gene computer, hitting the milestone of petaflop calculations.
The computer, dubbed "Roadrunner", was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and will initially be used to protect the U.S.'s arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Crawford said that the computer could also likely have applications in financial services, climate change solutions and cloud computing initiatives.
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