In the latest version of the list of 500 powerful computing systems of the world, the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer, installed in the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy, leads. In one second, this system is capable of performing up to 1.105 quadrillion operations with a floating comma (petaflop), reports the Company . The Roadrunner complex is on the heels of the Jaguar supercomputer, which showed the speed of 1.059 petaflops in the Linpack test.

Over the past decade, the number of plastic surgery in children and adolescents has increased significantly in the United States. For the most part, young patients are completely healthy, but dissatisfied with the size of the nose, chest size and breadth of the eyes, reports inopressa.ru with reference to USA Today .

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad called on Thursday the head of the US administration Barack Obama "not to interfere in the internal affairs" of Iran. According to the Iranian leader, President Obama "makes a mistake", repeating the same things that his predecessor George Bush said, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Iranian news agency Fars.

The State Council of World and Development of Myanmar (Burma) leads using the DPRK the construction of a giant network of tunnels and shelters in various regions of the country. About this, as Interfax reports, the EFE Spanish news agency reported on Thursday.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office brought accountable to the heads of construction companies who organized a landfill in the village of Small Istok, where, as you know, the Sverdlovsk governor Eduard Rossel lives, Uralpolit.Ru reports.

The acting rector of the Moscow Medical Academy (MMA) named after Sechenov was appointed 61-year-old vice-rector for the scientific work of this university Academician of the RAMS Sergey Grachev. This was reported by the Academy website with reference to the order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of June 19.

During the draw of the 1/16 finals of the Russian Football Cup, held on Tuesday and four rounds, the provisions of the regulations of this competition were grossly violated. According to the newspaper Sport-Express , some teams were not in the parts of the grid where they were supposed to, and thus received other pairs of probable rivals.

The current crisis will cause the strengthening of centrifugal tendencies among members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), since neither a single policy nor a plan of joint actions between them has so far been developed, while the number of interstate conflicts is growing, the Independent Newspaper writes with reference to the analytical study of the company of the CIS country and the global crisis: general problems and different approaches, ” published the day before.

The FSB of the Russian Federation detained drug police and employees of the FSB in the Primorye of an air traffic controller who uses drugs for a long time, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the information group of the regional drug control department. The air traffic controller of the Vladivostok Center for the Air Movement of the Air Navigation of the Far East branch was detained in the city of Artem.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who these days make a trip to Africa , arrived from Nigeria to Namibia. It is expected that the Russian leader will discuss with the President of the country by Hifikepunya Pohamb, the possibility of increasing trade, as well as expanding Russian investment participation in large projects, including in the fields of exploration and development of deposits, electric power, transport and tourism.

“Naftogaz of Ukraine” states that gas owned by Gazprom is not stored in Ukrainian underground storage facilities, and the claims of the Russian monopolist regarding fuel disappearance from the Ukrainian PHG are incorrect. The day before, the deputy head of Gazprom, Alexander Medvedev, said that the holding decided not to keep his gas in the PHG of Ukraine , as he had already encountered 8 billion cubic meters of gas from these storage facilities.

In Perm, a record robbery of collectors was committed, as a result of which 250 million rubles became the prey of the criminal. According to preliminary data, their colleague robbed the guards. During the robbery, none of them were injured. The largest attack on the collectors in the history of Russia occurred on Thursday about noon in the Dzerzhinsky district of the city.

In Ingushetia, after an attempt on the President of the Republic, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the struggle for power continues. The opposition decided to convene an Extraordinary Congress of the Ingush people. As the leader of the Ingush opposition, Magomed Khazbiev, told the Kommersant newspaper, the congress will request the federal center to appoint the temporarily acting head of the Ingushetia of the former president of the Republic Ruslan Aushev.

The Kazan Rubin footballer Petr Bystrov was discharged from the hospital and continues in the conditions of home regime the restoration from the consequences of the thermal blow, which he received in his home game against Rostov. In the near future, Peter will pass resort-sanatorium treatment. After the liver functions are completely restored, it will become clear when Bystrov can start training, informs the official website of the Kazan Club .

New cases of disease with dangerous pork flu (A/H1N1) in Russia are not registered. The risk of raising incidence can increase in September, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko. As previously reported, in Russia three patients with new flu were recorded, which became infected in countries where an increase in incidence, in particular in the USA and Spain, was noted.