Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When scientists push the limits of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning ...

One thing is certain: The explosion of data creation in our society will continue as far as pundits and anyone else can forecast. In response, there is an insatiable demand for more advanced high ...

This study will review the future of computing beyond exascale to meet national security needs at the National Nuclear Security Administration. (Exascale refers to a computer that performs 10^18 ...

A view looking at one corner of a the Frontier supercomputer. The machine's black cabinets receed into the background in a bright, white room. The back of these cabinets have been removed to show red ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a supercomputer named Frontier has broken the exascale computing barrier, meaning it can calculate more than a million trillion floating-point operations per second.

The Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced that it has selected four co-design centers as part of a 4 year, $48 million funding award. The first year is funded at $12 ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 10, 2016 - The Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced the selection of 35 software development proposals representing 25 research and academic ...

It’s hard to imagine how a billion billion (i.e. a quintillion) calculations per second and beyond will affect the way we live and work, but such performance will bring new capabilities for a new set ...

Exascale computing is no longer a distant concept, but a reality reshaping how massive computational tasks are approached. However, this rise has brought new challenges, particularly in thermal ...

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