The fastest supercomputer in the world will soon be outpaced by a newer, swifter rival. Scientists recently completed the engineering design for the first of two paired supercomputers called the ...

The term supercomputer does get tossed around a lot, but what does it actually mean? What does a computer need to do to be ...

The three-time No. 1 system maintains its title ahead of Frontier and Aurora in the latest TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, researchers have assembled a digital mouse cortex ...

Chips made by the Green Goblin are powering a supercomputer that the graphics chip supplier claims has achieved the fastest speeds to date. The Chinese “Tianhe-1A” has hit 2.507 petaflops, using 7168 ...

The world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers are capable of doing many things, but increasingly the world of high performance computing (HPC) is leaning in on artificial intelligence (AI). At ...

Think you know supercomputers from sci-fi? Think again. See how these digital giants are solving real-world problems in ways ...

Quantum computing has long promised to crack problems that defeat even the fastest supercomputers, but the hardware has struggled to scale beyond fragile laboratory prototypes. A new generation of ...