An Intel Paragon supercomputer in its cabinet, on display at the Computer History Museum Credit: Carlo Nardone/Computer History Museum The thing about multicomputers, though, is that scaling up ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supercomputing power is measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The most powerful supercomputers in the ...

British chip designer Arm achieves a major milestone with a new system in Japan becoming the world's fastest supercomputer as Intel and AMD continue to duke it out over the x86 server space.

Supercomputers typically consume anywhere between 1 to 10 megawatts of power on average. Architectural and software innovations are critical in driving energy-aware HPC. Supercomputers have been ...