Argentina’s Defense Minister, Jorge Taiana, recently unveiled Clementina XXI, a supercomputer that ranks among the world’s top 100. This milestone makes Argentina one of two South American countries with such advanced computational resources. In July 2022, Brazil’s leading oil company, Petrobras, unveiled its new supercomputer, Pegasus (or Pegaso), located in Rio de Janeiro. A collaboration […]
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