Another great misallocation of resources
IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory unveiled yesterday the most powerful supercomputer in the world. Roadrunner, as it was nicknamed, is able to perform the same tasks as 100,000 laptops combined. But its main applications will be in the military—the New York Times even chose to directly call it a “military supercomputer”—it will be used by the National Nuclear Securtity Administration for nuclear research, although it could very well be used in various other fields in desperate need of such technology, from medicine to environmental engineering.
Source: The Globe and Mail