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Want to imagine what it would be like to operate at the same level as Indiana University<\/a> newest supercomputer Big Red 200? Let?s have Brad Wheeler<\/a>, Indiana?s Vice President of information Technology, put that in perspective.<\/p>\n ?Supercomputers are measured in the number of mathematical calculations per second they can do,? Wheeler explains. ?So, if you take every citizen in the state of Indiana and he or she did one mathematical calculation per second, 24 hours a day, 365 days, a year, it would take every citizen 28 years to do what this machine does in 1 second.?<\/p>\n In technical terms, Big Red 200 operates at 6 petaFLOPS. A single petaFLOPS is a measure of computer performance qual to a quadrillion floating-point operations - a mathematical equation - per second. That makes Big Red 200 over 6 times faster than its predecessor, Big Red II, and the fastest university-owned supercomputer in the nation.<\/p>\n Why does Indiana need such a powerful tool at their disposal?<\/p>\n As one of the world?s leading research universities, professors and researchers across campus are asking ever bigger questions. Wheeler points to the work done on climate science and genomic research, which pull together many billions of data points.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n But he is quick to note that Big Red 200 isn?t just supercharging research in what are traditionally considered the ?hard sciences.?<\/p>\n ?One of the things that?s unique at Indiana University is when we have high performance computing gear, it?s available to all the faculty and all the disciplines and all the graduate students and many undergrads who work with faculty,? says Wheeler. ?So, on that machine you?ll see over 300 academic disciplines make use of it. What often surprises people is to know that our humanists make use of this machine. We have research on over 15,000 fully digitized books in over 400 languages that our humanists can study the evolution of particular themes, pronouns, over the centuries. It?s a remarkable new form of scholarship.?<\/p>\n