In Pictures: The 10 most powerful supercomputers on the planet

The latest Top500 list details the world's mightiest silicon

No. 4: Mira

Also using the Blue Gene/Q architecture is Mira, of the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratories. However, it packs substantially more cores than JUQUEEN -- 786,432, to be exact -- in return for a nearly doubled performance return of 8.16 petaflops.

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