The biannual Top500 Supercomputing list is out, and for the first time in seven years, Japan has built the world's fastest computer. K Computer displaces China's Tianhe-1A just six months after ...

What the exascale computer can achieve is as impressive as its name. It will be key to drug discovery, climate forecasting ...

There is a new fastest computer in the world – and it is so quick that it requires a new word to describe it. The Frontier system at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Europe’s fastest supercomputer Jupiter is set to be inaugurated Friday in Germany with its operators hoping it can help the ...

IBM's record-breaking Roadrunner supercomputer was the fastest computer in the world when introduced five years ago.

Smack dab in the middle of a forest preserve about 25 miles west of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory is building the fastest computer in the world. Its name is Aurora. Once it’s turned on… ...

The Sequoia was named the world's fastest by Top 500 Supercomputer Sites, who do rankings of the fastest computers on Earth every six months.

The second-fastest computer, the Tianhe-2 at the National Supercomputer Center in the southern city of Guangzhou, is capable of 33 petaflops. It uses chips made by Intel Corp.

There is a new fastest computer in the world – and it is so quick that it requires a new word to describe it. The Frontier system at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now ...