When you think of a supercomputer, what do you see in your mind's eye? A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC? A sinister emergent ...

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.

Supercomputers are highly specialized, extremely expensive, and power-intensive machines used for specific tasks like climate modeling. Supercomputers require custom hardware and careful planning ...

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

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

In 2025, Japan will start developing the world's first 'zeta-class' supercomputer, a 1,000 times more powerful than the fastest supercomputer today. But what are supercomputers and why do we even ...

Meanwhile, Switzerland's two federal technology institutes have developed Alps, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, to support large language models (LLMs) such as those behind ...