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Super Computer

Linda talks with supercomputer expert Justin Rattner of the Intel Corporation in Portland, Oregon, about the news that Intel has developed a computer that can perform more than a trillion computations per second. They discuss what this means for the computer industry and how having computers that can calculate with a large number of variables might change day-to-day living...for example, it is possible that computers could now help accurately predict the weather.

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