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Nanometer processors used for petawhopper computers to keep your lights on Last week, Italian energy company Eni’s took the lead in supercomputers with the launch of its latest petawhopper, the HPC4. At 18.6 petaflops (peak) the new cluster becomes the world’s most powerful commercial system and quadruples the company’s computing capacity to an aggregate peak performance of 22.4 petaflops. According to Bloomberg the system cost $25 million. The Eni Green Data Center near Milan. Source: Eni Super computers have been the tools of seismic research and data extraction for decades. Second only to nuclear weapon development, oil & gas has