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Supercomputers

The Cray-1 and the CYBER 205 can perform 100 million arithmetic operations per second. This kind of "number crunching" is needed for the solution of complex problems such as those in fluid dynamics

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 246 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “Supercomputers” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 246 No. 1 (), p. 118
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0182-118