The best supercomputer in Europe

Europe's fastest supercomputer has been unveiled at a research centre in Julich, Germany. The giant machine, called Jugene, can perform 1,000 trillion operations per second.

Here are some of Jugene's features:

* Based on IBM Blue Gene/P architecture

* Super computing power a quadrillion calculations per second

* Equivalent to the computing power of over 50,000 personal computers

* 294,912 processor cores

* Processor type: 32-bit PowerPC450 core at 850MHz

* 144TB memory

* Occupies 72 racks

* Internet Bandwidth: 5.1 billion bytes per second, network latency 160ns (160 nanoseconds)

* Power: 2.2 MW