The University of Queensland has built a supercomputer that is helping with research on the energy crisis and treating difficult illnesses.The computer is a cluster of Dell servers based on 700 processing cores that generate enough computational grunt to model highly complex nano-level chemical interactions.Australian Institute for Bio-engineering and Nanotechnology director Sean Smith said the models assisted engineers working on cutting-edge medical and sustainable energy projects.
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