Supercomputers
U.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer Race
The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee, a milestone for the technology that plays a major role in science, medicine and other fields. Frontier, the name of the massive machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was declared on Monday to be the first to […]
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Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers
In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack. Linpack offered a way to run complex mathematics on what we now call supercomputers. It became a vital tool for scientific labs as they stretched the boundaries of what a computer could do. […]
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