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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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