Raijin

Raijin

Raijin, Australia unveiled its most powerful super computer in Canberra, Raijin is named after the Japanese God of thunder and rain. 

Raijin is considered the 27th most powerful computer in the world. The supercomputer can perform the same number of calculations in one hour that 7 billion people with calculators could perform in 20 years. Raijin forms a part of the new National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) facility at the campus. The computer itself is bigger than the size of a house.

Courtesy: http://gkngs.blogspot.in/2013/09/raijin.html