Exascale computing is the latest milestone in cutting-edge supercomputers — high-powered systems capable of processing calculations at speeds currently impossible using any other method. Exascale ...

A view looking at one corner of a the Frontier supercomputer. The machine's black cabinets receed into the background in a bright, white room. The back of these cabinets have been removed to show red ...

The UK government has announced that Edinburgh will be home to a new exascale supercomputer. The computer will be 50 times more powerful than the UK's best supercomputer, the ARCHER2. The UK ...

Oak Ridge National Lab houses the world's first and fastest exascale supercomputer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5. (Image credit: Carlos Jones / ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy). The ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a supercomputer named Frontier has broken the exascale computing barrier, meaning it can calculate more than a million trillion floating-point operations per second.

Data Center Servers with the blue sky and green grass Forget 2014, let’s talk about what to expect in 2020, just six years from now, say a supercomputer finally capable of mongo-calculative deftness ...

The advent of exascale supercomputers marks a significant milestone in the history of high-performance computing (HPC). These powerful machines, capable of performing at least one exaflop or a ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, and Vice, among other publications. Before exascale, the fastest supercomputers in the world could handle problems at the ...

For the past several years, the world's power have been locked in a supercomputing arms race, one-upping one another with biggest and faster achievements. According to a new announcement, the world’s ...

The UK today said it had selected Edinburgh to host its first exascale next-gen supercomputer, which will be 50 times faster than its current highest capacity system. The University of Edinburgh will ...

A quintillion calculations a second. That's one with 18 zeros after it. It's the speed at which an exascale supercomputer will process information. The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing for the ...