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| | BlueGene to help decipher corn genome |
 | | To determine how a corn genome - the basic genetic structure of the plant - is put together, scientists must assemble more than 60 million bits of genetic material. |
 | | Scientists are planning to use the $1.25 million IBM BlueGene supercomputer, unveiled yesterday, which has the equivalent processing power of more than 2,000 home computers and a storage capacity more than 1,000 times greater. |
 | | It performs as many as 5.7 trillion calculations per second, said Srinivas Aluru, professor of electrical and computer engineering. |
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