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US to create 'computer brain'
The gap between man and machine narrows today with the announcement that
scientists have begun work on the first supercomputer with a processing
power equivalent to the human brain.
Spencer Abraham, the American secretary of state for energy, will announce
a contract with IBM to build two supercomputers one and a half times more
powerful than the combined might of the 25 largest existing
supercomputers.
The machines, made up of 197 refrigerator-sized boxes each weighing one
ton, can crunch half a quadrillion - 500,000,000,000,000 - calculations
every second, estimated to be the same magnitude of 'thinking capacity' as
the human brain.




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