The Bytes Behind Biology

BigBen's 21 cabinets hold 4,136 processors
Performing 21 trillion calculations per second, a supercomputer in Pittsburgh provided the first atomic-level look at the inner workings of the nuclear pore complex. That's just one of its accomplishments.
By Andrea Gawrylewski
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