[BASF launches a supercomputer with 3 petaflops computing power] BASF announced on the 7th that it has launched a supercomputer with 3 petaflops computing power at its Ludwigshafen base, which is more powerful than its predecessor with 1.75 petaflop computing power (1 petaflop equals 1 trillion floating-point operations per second). The new BASF supercomputer, named Quriosity like its predecessor, is the world's largest supercomputer for industrial chemistry research.