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建议 Russia buys one of world's most powerful computers
A Russian university has bought one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, the first time that such sophisticated technology has been exported to the former Soviet Union, makers IBM said on Thursday.
The Moscow State University has selected a Blue Gene device capable of 27.8 trillion operations per second to use in research on nanotechnology and scientific applications such as modelling the heart, an IBM spokesman said.
"This agreement with IBM heralds a new era of supercomputing in Russia," said Viktor Sadovnichiy, rector of the university, in a statement.
The world's most powerful supercomputer is a Blue Gene device owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to model the ageing of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and predict potential problems.
IBM said the supercomputer sold to Moscow university would be among the 50 most powerful supercomputers in the world but had received an export licence from U.S. authorities and would be used "purely for scientific research".
The Department of Computational Mathematics at the Moscow university paid around US$5 million for two racks of the supercomputer, which can run 2,600 times faster than the fastest home PC and should be operational by April 2008.
Because of advances in technology, each rack of the supercomputer is about the size of a U.S. domestic fridge and additional racks can be added as requirements grow.
The Blue Gene version used by the U.S. government is almost 20 times more powerful than the one bought by Moscow.
俄罗斯买IBM超级计算机 批条和用途美国说了算
俄罗斯一所大学购买了一台世界上很强大的超级计算机，这也是这种高复杂精密技术第一次引入前苏联国家。
莫斯科国立大学购买的是Blue Gene（蓝色基因），它每秒运行27.8万亿次，用于纳米技术和科学应用比如塑造人工心脏。而该大学负责引入超级计算机的一位主任则表示，这掀开了俄罗斯超级计算机的新时代。
当然这台超级计算机并不是最强大的。世界上最强大的计算机为美国能源部所有，安装在劳伦斯利沃莫尔国家实验室(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)，用于模拟美国核武器装备的老化及其他潜在的问题。它比俄罗斯购买的快20倍。
IBM表示，卖给俄罗斯国立大学的这台超级计算机，排在超级计算机的前50位，不过已经获得了美国的出口许可，并只能用于“纯净的科学研究。”
该大学的计算机数学部门（Department of Computational Mathematics）为这台超级计算机的两个rack支付了500万美元，这两个rack比最快的家庭PC快2600倍，预计08年4月将运行。
由于技术的先进性，超级计算机的每个rack大小相当于美国国内的冰箱，而且根据需要可以给超级计算机扩展rack。
注：原文标题应当翻译为：俄罗斯购买了一台世界上最强大的计算机之一
