Emerging Tech

Air Force and Oak Ridge Get Supercomputer for Better Weather Forecasts

The $25 million contract will provide a system that supports the military’s complex weather prediction workloads.

  • By Brandi Vincent
Emerging Tech

Massive Exabyte Storage System to be Built for Energy’s Frontier Supercomputer

The fastest exascale supercomputer in the world requires a unique—and extremely large—storage system.

  • By Brandi Vincent
Emerging Tech

Energy to Debut World’s Fastest Exascale Supercomputer by 2021

Valued at more than $600 million, the next-generation technology will drastically reduce the time it takes to make new discoveries.

  • By Brandi Vincent
Emerging Tech

Energy Aims to Launch America’s First Exascale Supercomputer by 2021

Insiders say the first-of-its-kind machine will accelerate innovation and discovery across the health, defense and climate sectors—and beyond.

  • By Brandi Vincent
Data

This Is How Dramatically China’s Beating the U.S. in its Share of Supercomputers

Is it about quality or quantity?

  • By Echo Huang, Quartz
Emerging Tech

Energy Department Boots Up America's Most Powerful Supercomputer

The Summit runs roughly eight times faster and five times more efficiently than America’s most powerful supercomputer to date.

  • By Jack Corrigan
Emerging Tech

Russian Nuclear Scientists Were Arrested for Using a Supercomputer to Mine Bitcoin

The supercomputer is housed in the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, a restricted area with high security.

  • By Preeti Varathan, Quartz
Emerging Tech

NIH's Supercomputer Gets An Upgrade

NIH is using the CSRA's Biowulf cluster to study potential treatments for cancer, diabetes and other diseases.

  • By Mohana Ravindranath
Emerging Tech

NASA Used Supercomputer to Simulate How Air Flows Around a Drone

The findings could help improve future technology.

  • By Jacob Templin, Quartz
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