[HIGHLIGHTS] The Argentine supercomputer that is among the 100 most powerful in the world: what it is like and what it is used for

Clementina XXI is in the data center of the Meteorological Service. It cost 5 million dollars.

Its processing power is equivalent to 1,672 PlayStation 5 or 2,903 MacBook Pro. It is already used in research ranging from modeling oil and gas basins to analysis of various aspects of physics, astronomy and even some topics related to social sciences. The world of “supercomputers” is made up of equipment that can perform an immense amount of calculations compared to home equipment.