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As of June 18th, 2012, the most powerful supercomputer in the world is Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, USA. It employes 1,572,864 individual processor cores to achieve a record 16.32 petaflops (that's 16,320,000,000,000,000 or sixteen million billion floating point calculations per second).
Approximate cost: USD $250,000,000.
Sources: top500.org; llnl.gov
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