Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

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.

Frontier, the second fastest supercomputer in the world, used dark matter and the movement of gas and plasma rather than just ...

The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer. The fastest supercomputer in the world has officially ...

Engineers in Japan have switched on the world's first hybrid quantum supercomputer. The 20-qubit quantum computer, called ...

A supercomputer purely dedicated to grinding away on images that just aren't quite good enough. "What we're doing during this process," Catanzaro continues, "is we're analysing failures.

Credit: LLNL 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 ...

The big picture: It's been more than six years since ... As it turns out, a massive supercomputer has been involved in the process since the very beginning. While discussing the tech at at the ...

Researchers in the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have used machine learning and supercomputer simulations to investigate how tiny gold nanoparticles bind to blood ...

ABCI 3.0, the most advanced public supercomputer in Japan specializing in the research and development of artificial intelligence, began full-scale operation on Jan. 20. The supercomputer was ...