Base to get ‘monster’ $30M computer

Associated Press

DAYTON

An Ohio Air Force base is getting a “monster” $30 million super computer to meet a growing demand among scientists and researchers for high-speed computing power.

The SGI Ice X supercomputer is expected to be one of the 10 fastest in the world once the Air Force Research Laboratory installs it at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.

Jeff Graham, director of the lab’s Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center, tells the Dayton Daily News that each second, the computer can calculate 5.6 petaflops, or a numeral followed by 15 zeros.

Virginia Ross, a research laboratory computer engineer, says the computer will be fully online this summer.