The El Capitan supercomputer has officially become the fastest computer ever made, after scoring 1,742 PetaFLOPS on the High-Performance Linkpack benchmark. That puts it 400 PetaFLOPS ahead of its ...

Europe’s fastest supercomputer Jupiter is set to be inaugurated Friday in Germany with its operators hoping it can help the continent in everything from climate research to catching up in the ...

The fastest supercomputer in the world has officially launched at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California. The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build ...

Anyone else tired of these “fastest computer in the world” stories? I am. They almost sound like bragging. Look what we did with our computer, but you can’t with yours! I don’t really care whether a ...

As US and Chinese technology firms have competed in the race to be innovators in artificial intelligence (AI), Europe has fallen behind. But on 5 September, a European supercomputer called JUPITER ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

In an attempt to keep the US towards the front of the pack in the global technology race, President Obama has signed an executive order that calls for US engineers and scientists to build the world’s ...

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