http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-24534053
The Iridis4 has 12,200 processors, each of which can perform a trillion
calculations per second - a measurement referred to as a "teraflop".
The IBM machine also has a million gigabytes of disk space and 50 terabytes
of memory.
Home computers generally have between 500GB and 2TB of disc space and about
4GB to 6GB of memory.
There are 1,024 gigabytes in a terabyte.
The university said the new machine would allow academics to work on more
projects at faster speeds.
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