The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) used a supercomputer to advance understanding of the hepatitis C virus, a major cause of liver disease. This paves the way for researchers to …

This is the simplest definition of the term supercomputer. The key feature which distinguishes supercomputers from other classes of computers is their massive processing power.

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE In June 2011, Japan’s K computer became the world’s fastest supercomputer, achieving a speed of over 8 petaflops — or 8 quadrillion

In this visualization, we’ve used November 2021 data from TOP500 to visualize the computing power of the world’s top five supercomputers. For added context, a number of modern …

Jan 10, 2024 · A team led by computational physicist Emily Belli of General Atomics has used Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to simulate energy …

Approaches to supercomputer architecture have taken dramatic turns since the earliest systems were introduced in the 1960s. Early supercomputer architectures pioneered by Seymour Cray …

Meet El Capitan, which churns through data at 1.742 quintillion calculations per second—think 1.7 followed by 18 zeroes—to simulate the testing needed to evaluate the health and extend the …