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The new brain of Britain

This is Hector � he lives in Midlothian and can perform 50 million million calculations per second. Jennifer Archer and Rebecca McQuillan meet the new supercomputer which could change the world

There are no flashing green lights or sounds that go "bing", no sweetly sinister disembodied voice: just a passageway lined with grey boxes.