Supercomputing 15 Stories

Supercomputers drive everything from climate models to the design of advanced weapon systems. An in-depth look at efforts to build the world's fastest computer and the push to exascale computing.

Photograph of Sundar Pichai standing next to a quantum computer at Google

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy

In an exclusive interview with MIT Technology Review, Pichai explains why quantum computing could be as important for Google as AI.

by Gideon Lichfield
2019-10-23T05:00:00-04:00

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Supercomputing has just become the latest front in the US-China trade war

by Martin Giles
2019-06-21T20:18:23-04:00

Summit supercomputer

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The world’s best supercomputers are being updated to run AI software faster

by Martin Giles
2019-06-18T12:03:32-04:00

A 'Mistral' supercomputer at the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg

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The US is building a $500m ‘exascale’ computer that will be the world’s most powerful

by Charlotte Jee
2019-03-19T08:56:31-04:00

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DNA-based molecular computing will pave the way for programmable pills

Molecular circuitry offers a better way to measure, and potentially harness, cellular signaling mechanisms.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
2018-10-17T04:20:00-04:00

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The US may have just pulled even with China in the race to build supercomputing’s next big thing

The two countries are vying to create an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields.

by Martin Giles
2018-07-11T07:00:00-04:00

Summit computer

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China tops the US as the number one supercomputer manufacturer

by Erin Winick
2018-06-25T11:11:17-04:00

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America’s new supercomputer beats China’s fastest machine to take title of world’s most powerful

by Martin Giles
2018-06-08T12:01:41-04:00

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The world’s most powerful supercomputer is tailor made for the AI era

The technology used to build America’s new Summit machine will also help us make the leap to exascale computing.

by Martin Giles
2018-06-08T12:00:00-04:00

TaihuLight is the world's fastest supercomputer.

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America Just Can’t Match China’s Exploding Supercomputing Power

by Jamie Condliffe
2017-11-13T12:44:43-05:00

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