SOUTH AFRICA SUPERCOMPUTER

Africa's fastest supercomputer

epa05351648 A photograph taken with a fish eye lens shows Engineer Faheem Essack inspecting the fastest computer in Africa named Lengau at the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa 08 June 2016. Lengau meaning Cheetah in Setswana language named after Africa's fastest animal was officially launched this week and is the fastest supercomputer in Africa. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)'s Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) hosts the latest Dell machine which is in the top 100 supercomputing list worldwide. The new petaflop system is the first of its kind on the continent and is aimed at enhancing services for researchers and scientists working on a wide range of subjects from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope to weather modeling, climate change and mining. The machine has 40 000 cores which is the aproximate equivalent power of 40 000 laptops. EPA/NIC BOTHMA

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