French server and Services Corporation Bull has presently twisted on a novel super PC for the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) to expects will arrive at a prime presentation of 1.25 petaflops afterward this year.

The machine will be used to replicate nuclear weapons, permitting the French armed forces to make sure the dependability of their nuclear prevention devoid of behavior live tests, the CEA said.

The Tera 100 include 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processor cores & 300TB of memory, as the file system will contain a throughput of 500GB/s & whole storage space of 20PB, said.

If Bull achieves its presentation target, it will probably create Tera 100, as the PC is known, the majority influential in Europe, in front of an IBM PC called Jugene at the Jülich investigate axis in Germany.

Jugene has a continued utmost presentation of 0.825 petaflops and a peak presentation of 1 petaflop.

Bull's prior record-breaker, install previous year, is too at Jülich. It has 23604 Intel Xeon X5570 cores and has a continued utmost presentation of 0.274 petaflops.

That PC is 13th in a ranking of the world's greatest supercomputers available previous November by Top500.org. The majority influential, constructs by Cray for Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S., has 224,162 Opteron cores and has a continued utmost presentation of 1.759 petaflops.