"The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has ordered one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers with a peak performance of over 40 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second).
The new American-built Cray XT3 system – to be known as ‘Larch’ – costs in the region of £20 million and will replace AWE’s current supercomputer, ‘Blue Oak.’"
Read AWE's newsrelease here: http://www.awe.co.uk/main_site/news/articles/NI_2006_036.html