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An American military supercomputer designed to run virtual tests of nuclear weapons has set a staggering new speed record.The IBM machine - dubbed Roadrunner and built with components designed for Sony's PlayStation 3 - reached the computing milestone of processing more than one thousand trillion calculations per second. Discussing the capacity