In a feat of electronic “barn-raising,” 200 people will install a new supercomputer at Purdue University in a single day.
The machine will be the size of a semi trailer when it is installed, on May 5, and it will be able to perform more than 60 trillion operations in one second. It would rank in the top 40 of the current Top 500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world.
To stoke campus involvement in the installation of the new machine (named “Steele” after a former faculty member), organizers created a movie trailer called “Installation Day,” a parody of “Independence Day.” Here it is:
—Catherine Rampell
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