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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.

El Capitan was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy's CORAL-2 program to replace the Sierra supercomputer, deployed ...

According to the list, China’s most powerful supercomputer has a maximum Linpack performance of 487.94 petaflops, a figure that would place it fifth in the most recent edition of the Top500 list of ...

Argonne National Laboratory has released its Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers across the world to support ...

Since 2017, China stopped taking part in the LINPACK benchmark used by the TOP500 organization to rank the world’s most power supercomputers. Yet for the past several years, the Chinese Society of ...

“El Capitan” is the world’s fastest supercomputer and the third exascale computer on the planet. The world’s fastest ...

Its specifications suggest it is the fifth-most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the annual TOP500 rankings. The Italian firm is notable in that, unlike some of its peers ...

The U.S. is home to five of the ten most powerful supercomputers in the world, according to the 64th edition of the TOP500. The top three supercomputers, all based in the U.S., are classified by ...