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.

A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC ... This Sh*t Is Cray Parallel Processing The first computer generally regarded as a ...

Front panel of the UNIVAC LARC supercomputer. Credit: U.S. Army (Public Domain) UNIVACs were massive mainframe computers, and the LARC ("Livermore Advanced Research Computer") was specifically ...

EAI Pace (TR 48): The EAI Pace is a "desktop computer" that was manufactured and produced in the early 1960’s. Endim 2000: The ENDIM 2000 analog computer was a tube­based design developed and ...