If it hums like it's supposed to, IBM said, Sequoia's 20 petaflops-per-second speed would make it 10 times faster than any other existing supercomputer. Sweet system? They think so. Here's a quick ...

Both Sequoia and Dawn will be used for NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. IBM and NNSA researchers cited such abilities in a 20 petaflops per second supercomputer as a 40-times jump ...