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[Terry McCracken]

Lawrence Livermore National Labs is home to Sequoia, a classified supercomputer that’s used to simulate nuclear bombs. It’s a number-crunching wonder, the most powerful computer in the world.

But just a few feet from Sequoia, lab technicians have now assembled the first two server racks of what will one day be Sequoia’s little brother, Vulcan: a mighty supercomputer that anybody can use.

Well, not exactly everybody. You’ve got to pay Lawrence Livermore a fair chunk of change for access to the computer. The lab is a little hazy on pricing, but clearly, renting out one of the world’s largest supercomputers isn’t going to be cheap.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/vulcan/
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Terry McCracken