The saddest thing about Personal Computers are that after a certain point they all fit into the mould of the obsolete, sometimes sadly within six months of their purchase. Unless your one of the super few who can own THE HECTOR, this behemoth has the power of 12,000 desktop PCs, Its the fastest computer in Britain and one of the most powerful in Europe. It can make 63 million calculations each second, allowing scientists to conduct research into everything from climate change to new medicines. The purpose-built machine is housed in 60 wardrobe-sized cabinets in the University of Edinburgh's advanced computing centre near the Scottish capital. The price to this Godly brain is approx 113 million pounds, well not a bad price to get the best graphics while I play Crysis at WEEPINGLY REAL settings. Sadly that's far from being a real possibility, however it will be used by scientists working in fields ranging from cosmology and atomic physics to disaster simulation and health care will also use the computer.

HECToR, which stands for High-End Computing Terascale Resource, was made the U.S. manufacturer Cray Inc.Despite its vast power, it falls some way short of the world's biggest computer: Blue Gene/L.Housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, it is used to study nuclear weapons without the need for underground testing.

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