BP's computer centre in the Gulf of Mexico operates at 270 teraflops (270 trillion calculations per second), nearly 3, 000 times faster than a decade ago.
If it goes ahead, the computer data centre would provide services for a number of companies and would be powered by tidal energy rather than rely on fossil fuel.
Apple is expected to step closer towards the idea of the computer as an entertainment centre at its Macworld Expo, which starts in San Francisco on Tuesday.
The 100, 000 Lux show will be created on the outside of Abertay's Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education.
Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.
For example, the National Air Traffic Service, which has presided over one of the worst computer-procurement failures at its much-delayed Swanwick control centre, is outside parliamentary audit.
Mr Ayres predicts that automated decision-making will soon see other professional jobs going the same way as that of the bank-loan officer, once well-paid and responsible and now a mere call-centre operative, paid peanuts to parrot the words a computer prompts.
The Centre also includes three classrooms that will be used for journalism courses, computer training and English lessons, as well as a conference area and projection room that will be used as the base for a cinema club.
Its advanced engine-development centre, which opened this summer, hooks up an engine to a simulated computer model of an as-yet unbuilt prototype car, to see how well it performs.
The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, has been at the centre of efforts to fill the gap and ensure the full story of wartime computer development is told.
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