Paul M. Horn, senior vice president of IBM researc
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: Paul M. Horn, senior vice president of IBM research, announces at press conference 06 December 1999 in New York a five-year, 100 million USD program to build a supercomputer to simulate the building of proteins in the body. Horns stands beside a model of a board containing 64 one gigaflop chips, making it capable of one trillion operations per second. Over one thousand of these boards will make up the new computer, nicknamed "Blue Gene", which will be capable of more than one quadrillion operations per second, about two million times more powerful than a desktop PC. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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