The Gabriel-Lippmann CRP publicly revealed its High Performance Computing supercomputing device. The machine can process data at a rate of 3.41 teraflops, or over three thousand billion operations per second via a network of 512 parallel processors. It can store locally some 96 terabits, and is linked to other machines through a high speed connection. This device, installed for the CRP in 2009 by specialist producer Clustervision, was put online in 2010 for internal use. It is already crunching numbers for 18 different projects including weather forecasting, hydrological modelling of watersheds and materials science. The machine fulfils the hopes of the Ministry of the Economy’s HPC Working Group, which sought such functionality for a range of public and private organisation with needs for very high speed processing. The CRP is planning a series of upgrades to accelerate the machine, pushing it to 5.5 teraflops, allowing it to handle calculations involved in nanotechnologies. The device will be located in the Cité des Sciences in Esch-Belval, when the CRP moves there.