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Government unveils world's fastest computer

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  • Computer is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second
  • It will be used to help maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile
  • The machine is named Roadrunner
  • IBM and Los Alamos engineers worked six years on the computer technology
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