The US has launched the world’s fastest supercomputer which is twice as powerful as any of its competitors.
Developers IBM and NVidia have dubbed the new machine Summit and hope it will be used in areas such as astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.
Summit can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent of 200 petaflops.
Its predecessor China’s Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer which had previously been deemed the world’s fastest computer can process 93 petaflops per second.
Currently the computer is housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.
The US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said Summit put the US “back in the game” when it came to developing super computers.
Speaking at the ORNL event to launch Summit, he said: "We know we're in a competition and it matters who gets there first,"
"The ability to show the rest of the world that America is back in the game and we're back in the game in a big way is really important.
"Summit's computing capacity is so powerful that it has the ability to calculate 30 years' worth of data saved on a desktop in one hour... this is about changing the world."
