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 ...

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.

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 ...

Recent significant developments include bigger qubit systems and improvements in error correction. By improving algorithms ...

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 ...

Intel and Argonne National Laboratory said they will co-design and validate exascale-class applications using the chipmaker's GPUs, microarchitecture and developer tools. The collaboration is part of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For application developers, the idea of delegating functionality to external libraries is not new. For decades, standard mathematical operations such as dense linear algebra and fast Fourier ...

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 ...