Mexico inaugurates Latam’s second supercomputer by size and speed
Mexican scientists inaugurated Latin America's No. 2 supercomputer by size and speed, with the ability to process 24.9 trillion operations per second, authorities said.
The computer, along with others at two major Mexican universities, is part of the new high-performance network Lancad, said the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Cinvestav in a communiqué.
Cinvestav chief Rene Asomoza explained that the Lancad project will generate physical infrastructure that will improve Mexico's competitive position in the world.
Besides benefiting the academic sector, the computer also will support government and the private sector, said Asomoza, who made a call to take advantage of its enormous technological capabilities to develop high-impact social and economic projects.
The government can accommodate “critical applications that require a high level of storage and security” or push for education and distance-learning, while the private sector can develop “modelling applications and simulation of processes or the development of tools and teams”, he said.
The official said that the computer, dubbed Xiuhcoatl (“serpent of fire”), will allow the processing of information to solve problems in health care, climate change and security, among many others areas.
For example, using the computer a pharmaceutical firm can undertake simulations of new medications, aerospace simulations can be carried out and scientists can work with new proteins, he said.
The supercomputer, the largest in the region after a machine in Brazil, required an investment of some 1.3 million dollars.
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Mexico inaugurates Latam's second supercomputer by size and speed....
I say :
Only by our strict adherence to this type of disciplined researchs could we begin to see the - threads-- that have woven this matrix we call life and begin to understand in its full totality where we were ,where we are now,and where we headed..!.........
All Mexico has to do now is to get rid of the drug cartels to become a real force in the Americas.
Given the corruption endemic in the policia and government that will never happen. They will always be a backward country just like Argentina.
So far from God,
So close to the USA.
You say :
So far from god...so close to USA...
I say :
In the last five years drug violence claimed more than 40 ,000 Mexican lives...who cares.. ?
USA should care about becouse USA total oil imports averaging ''' 9 millions barrels ''' per day from Mexico.....
USA addiction is not one ,but three Mexican narcotics which are '''drugs..cheap labour...oil imports “”..........!.........
AHAHAHAAH cris..Still I prefer to live in Argentina and not decadent uk...nice try prick
How old are you? You behave like a 15 year old boy or girl, I am not sure which, who knows how to type simple words but is happier using insults and repetive two finger typing.
What else is Argentina other than a third world country? She USED to be a world leader, but that was when the landowners ruled the country. Now it's ruled by a bunch of Fascist wannabee thugs beholden to Old 'Smooth Neck' herself together with Fat Boy and Thin Girl. The Troika of the Peronistas.
As I am an atheist, I cannot with all conscience say 'God help you all'.
But we think, he did not mean that taking what does not belong to you, is acceptable.
for being religious is one thing, but claiming it, and abusing the words of the bible and the ten commandments is nothing short of hypocrisy is it not,
we all make our own decisions and must their for take responsibility for our own actions, Mexico is no difference to others, she will learn , adapt and overcome .
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