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supercomputer Aurora to Bring the Dawn of the Exascale Supercomputer

It’s fitting that the first exascale supercomputer in the United States—with a performance of one exaflop, or a quintillion calculations per second—will have the name “Aurora,” the mythical Roman goddess of the dawn. After all, it’s the dawn of a new era in high-performance computing.

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Pamela Rentz
summit supercomputer World’s Fastest Supercomputer Summit Is Ready

Acceptance testing is complete, and selected users are starting to tackle the most complex of science problems on the 200-petaflop IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer. Summit enables scientists to explore new territory and uncover insights by applying artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Pamela Rentz
supercomputer America’s New Supercomputer Summit Is Built for AI and Advanced Research

Built for artificial intelligence and high performance computing, the new supercomputer Summit will provide researchers and others with the incredible computing power to solve problems in human health, high-energy physics, climate science, advanced materials discovery, and other areas.

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Pamela Rentz
hurricane irma satellite image Hurricane Season 2018: Enhanced Forecasting and More Prep Time

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season saw three devastating major hurricanes. Like any team after a release that conducts reviews to see how they can improve, the National Hurricane Center found ways to enhance future communication to the public regarding where a tropical storm is headed and the potential impact.

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Pamela Rentz
Watson helping with taxes at H&R Block IBM’s Watson Will Help You File Your Taxes at H&R Block

Customers at H&R Block will be able to get tax advice from IBM’s famous supercomputer, Watson. Watson has been fed all 74,000 pages of the US tax code and will use its natural language processing to interact with clients in order to answer questions, uncover deductions and credits, and help calculate refunds.

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Beth Romanik
Hurricane Season 2016: Luna and Surge Are Ready

The 2016 hurricane season is upon us and NOAA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has more than tripled computing forecasting capacity thanks to two new Cray supercomputers the agency calls “Luna” and “Surge”.

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Pamela Rentz
Turning Smartphones into a Supercomputer

Smart devices can now become super devices with the Power to Give initiative from HTC. The initiative aims to empower smartphones to become a collective supercomputer and to harness their unused power to solve complex problems—such as finding cures for Alzheimer's disease and AIDS.

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Rajini Padmanaban
Government Seeks Researchers to Develop Superconductor Computers

Computers for US government intelligence agencies have hit such extensive performance requirements that power and cooling demands are becoming unmanageable. The solution? Put out a call for researchers who can help develop a new generation of fast, energy-efficient superconducting computers.

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Beth Romanik