IBM has announced that it has been commissioned by the US government to build the fastest computer in the world.

The computer will help look after America's nuclear arsenal and will be able to perform 20,000 trillion calculations a second – or 20 petaflops. Hopefully all these calculations will eventually come to the conclusion that President Obama should not push the big, red button.

The computer will use IBM's new Sequoia technology, and should be ready for the US' Department of Energy (DOA) to use in 2011.

That's just in time for it to calculate if the 2012 prophecies are a hoax!

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