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After winning top honors as the fastest supercomputer in the world -- for now, anyway -- IBM's Sequoia is getting ready to go to work for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Its duty: help manage the United States supply of nuclear weapons. "Much of the modeling for defense, aerospace, medical research and anticipating natural disasters is done on supercomputers," said analyst Rob Enderle.


IBM's Sequoia supercomputer headed the latest Top500 list of the world's fastest Supercomputers. The twice-yearly roster was released at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in June.


Sequoia will be restricted to weapons management and will be moved off onto its own classified network. National Nuclear Security Administration spokesperson Courtney Greenwald was not immediately available to provide further details.


"Much of the modeling for defense, aerospace, medical research and anticipating natural disasters is done on supercomputers," Enderle said. "Without them, we would be effectively out of a number of markets and largely be incapable of truly anticipating and properly planning for those moments when Mother Nature has a hissy fit."




"In Sequoia, we have 1.57 million compute cores running concurrently," Rosenfield stated. "We need a highly efficient operating system that scales with the size of the system."


IBM supercomputers make up nearly 43 percent of the latest Top500 list, followed by HP with more than 27 percent.

A camera capable of creating images with "unprecedented detail" has been unveiled by US engineers.


Nowadays, the typical commercial digital camera is capable of taking photographs ranging from 8 to 40 megapixels, but a new prototype machine, dubbed AWARE2, is threatening to make these cameras obsolete.


It works by synchronising 98 tiny cameras in a single device.


The machine is likely to be used first for military surveillance.


"A computer processor essentially stitches all this information into a single highly detailed image. In many instances, the camera can capture images of things that photographers cannot see themselves but can then detect when the image is viewed later."


By utilizing 98 tiny synchronized cameras, AWARE2 captures images with resolutions of up to 50 gigapixels, the equivalent of 50,000 megapixels. 


Though AWARE2 is too bulky and impractical for handheld use and will likely initially be used exclusively for military surveillance, researchers expect that gigapixel cameras will be compact enough to be made available to the general public within five years.