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Frontier, an Oak Ridge supercomputer, is now the fastest on earth. Here's why it is astounding. Vincent Gabrielle, Knoxville News Sentinel. Thu, June 2, 2022 at 5:42 PM UTC. 3 min read.
Frontier, the barrier-breaking supercomputer hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is no longer the fastest in the world. For the first time since it broke the exascale barrier by completing ...
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, an unlikely threat faces two of the world’s fastest supercomputers: raccoons and possums. The national lab, which is famous for its role in the Manhattan Project, ...
The new supercomputer delivers a potential thousandfold increase in processing from the petascale computers of a decade ago. “I am truly excited by the potential of Summit, as it moves the nation one ...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's computing systems are playing a big role in understanding weather and climate change, using a model of Earth. "You have this model Earth. And ...
– Oak Ridge National Laboratory Capable of achieving 148.6 petaflops, Summit is the ninth most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the most recent edition of the Top500 list .
The US Frontier supercomputer may be the most powerful computer on the planet, but at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which operates it, isn’t resting on its laurels.
Oak Ridge National Labs and its supercomputers have been playing a role in NASA's mission to safely land humans on the surface of Mars since 2019, according to an announcement made on earlier this ...
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will retire its Summit supercomputer in November 2024. Writing on Twitter/X, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), where ...