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NASA’s Supercomputer Gets 14% Faster NASA’s super smart computer Pleiades just became a whole lot more powerful. In order to keep up with the demands of scientists and engineers working for NASA, the computer’s performance was enhanced by 14% earlier this month. In a news release on NASA’s website, it states the computer can now complete “1.24 petaflops — or a quadrillion calculations per second.”  “To put this enormous number into perspective, if everyone in the world did one calculation per second for eight hours a day, it would take about 370 days to complete what this supercomputer can calculate in 60 seconds,” the release says. The computer is one of the smartest supercomputers in the world. It is used by 1,200 NASA researchers for a variety of projects, including processing large amounts of star data captured by the Kepler spacecraft and researching how solar flares impact technology on earth. Pleiades was also used “for generating the ‘Bolshoi’ cosmological ...