Switzerland has a new computer.
The supercomputer, called Alps, has been installed at the National Supercomputer Centre in Lugano.
It will be used to forecast and analyse the weather.
It can carry out the same calculations in one day that would take a standard laptop 40,000 years.
Currently it’s listed as the sixth most powerful computer in the world, but it could still rise as it wasn’t running at full capacity when it as last checked in June.
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