• Question: What was the smartest computer you have built and what was it called

    Asked by Rubarb to Julian, Heather, Helen, Hugh, Jane on 11 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Montytibbs.
    • Photo: Julian Onions

      Julian Onions answered on 11 Nov 2014:


      I haven’t really built a computer, I’ve assembled some from parts – but these days you need very high precision equipment to make chips for computers.

      The fastest one I have used is call Piz Daint, and is about as powerful as 6000 PS4’s running together.

    • Photo: Helen Johnson

      Helen Johnson answered on 14 Nov 2014:


      I’ve never built a computer, but as an astronomer I write my own computer code to deal with the really large amounts of data I get.

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