A £3.2m supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the UK, has been installed at the University of Southampton.
The Iridis4 has 12,200 processors, each of which can perform a trillion calculations per second - a measurement referred to as a "teraflop".
The IBM machine also has a million gigabytes of disk space and 50 terabytes of memory.
Home computers generally have between 500GB and 2TB of disc space and about 4GB to 6GB of memory.
There are 1,024 gigabytes in a terabyte.
The university said the new machine would allow academics to work on more projects at faster speeds.
The world's most powerful computer is China's Tianhe-2, which can perform 33,860 trillion calculations per second.
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