VIENNA, July 16 (Xinhua) -- A leading Austrian university has finished installing the country's most powerful supercomputer, that will come in about four times more powerful than its predecessor, local media reported on Tuesday.
The "Vienna Scientific Cluster 4", or "VSC-4", is capable of a processing speed of 2.7 petaflops (a measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second), the first time a computer in Austria has passed the petaflop mark.
The computer from tech giant Lenovo is presently operational at the Vienna University of Technology, though is not expected to be ready for normal use until the coming autumn, according to Herbert Stoeri, head of the VSC Research Center.
The computer is presently ranked the 82nd most powerful computer in the world, with Stoeri telling the Austria Press Agency that it cost about eight million euros.
Due to this high cost of supercomputers, four other Austrian universities are also part of the VSC project, including the University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, Graz University of Technology, and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
They along with some other educational institutions will make use of the VSC-4, for various purposes, including medical simulations, quantum physics calculations, and models for the optimal management of public transport.
