Question

A supercomputer, nicknamed Roadrunner, built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Labs can perform about 1.03 petaflop/s (1 petaflop is 1015 calculations). Determine how many seconds it would take this computer to count a mole of things. Convert this figure into years.

Answer 1

Answer:

18.5 years

Explanation:

(6 x 10^23)/(10^15 x 1.03 x 3600 x 24 x 365)

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