What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just how powerful they are in relation to smaller, cheaper computers, but the level of innovation and engineering required to bring them into being in the ...

At the time, Titan was the fastest supercomputer in the world, with 560,640 Intel Xeon and Nvidia Tesla cores pumping out about 17 petaflops. The Chinese Tianhe-2 has since taken the lead, though.

Your project was made possible by the development of the Mira supercomputer, the third-fastest computer in the world. Can you describe what makes Mira so special? Habib: Let me say one or two ...

"When you think supercomputer you think, 'Oh, I'm never going to get to use one of those or see one,'" Godat said. "Well, it's really kind of the same components you have in your normal computer.

Google's demonstration of "quantum supremacy" is being challenged by researchers claiming to have pulled ahead of Google on a relatively normal supercomputer.

But somewhere along the way, as the small world swells to include 50 atoms, the problem of predicting how they'll behave too difficult for your laptop, or any normal computer, to solve.

Honeywell’s computer will have a quantum volume of 64, and the company expects that metric will grow tenfold every year. By comparison, IBM recently said one of its computers reached a quantum ...

And it has shown that simulating the behavior of just one of those operations on a supercomputer would take 9,000 years, while its optical quantum computer can do them in just a few-dozen ...

Its simulations are 100,000 times more realistic than anything a normal desktop computer can make. The only two supercomputers that are more powerful are China's Sunway Taihulight in second place ...