Supercomputer available to schools

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - Gov. Bill Richardson announced Monday that the "Encanto" supercomputer, which is housed at Intel in Rio Rancho, has been rented out to eight different universities and colleges around the state.

The plan is to eventually make the $14 million system accessible to 25 other colleges and universities.

The supercomputer is for large projects and contains the memory of about 28,000 office computers.

It can also do 172 trillion calculations per second.

Encanto is the fastest publicly available supercomputer in the world.