The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...

Supercomputers play a vital role in scientific discoveries — from helping us forecast climate change to discovering new drugs. We've rounded up the top fastest on the planet right now.

With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former ...

The most powerful supercomputers in the world deliver a little over 1,000 petaFLOPS of power ... Project Digits, by contrast, can provide 1 petaFLOPS of power. It won't match the very best ...

Lawrence Livermore National Lab is also home to Sierra, another massive supercomputer that peaked as the world’s second-fastest in 2018. It, too, conducts classified nuclear weapons simulations.

Italian energy giant Eni S.p.A. has lifted the lid on one of the world’s ... and work out the best drilling strategies to access those resources. In addition, the supercomputer is expected ...

The world’s fastest computer — capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second at peak performance — is dedicated to national security, particularly research on the nuclear stockpile. (Photo ...

In June 2011, Japan’s K computer became the world’s fastest supercomputer, achieving a speed of over 8 petaflops — or 8 quadrillion (8 million billion) operations a second. In November the ...

Packing unimaginable speed with user-friendliness, the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku remains at the top of the world, just like its namesake. Named after Mount Fuji, Japan's tallest peak ...

Microsoft is planning to build one of the most advanced AI supercomputers in the world in a collaboration with OpenAI, dubbed the Stargate Project. With an estimated cost of $100 billion ...

Supercomputers have been fuelling some real-world business solutions over the decades. Right from designing a car or an aeroplane to oil field exploration to genome mapping, supercomputers have ...

This week, we received a rare look at El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer. It’s housed inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where the $600 million machine is ...