As the calendar turns to November 2025, The Register is locked onto the pulse of supercomputing. This month coincides with the esteemed SC25 conference, and we're dedicating our coverage to the ...

Exascale computing is the latest milestone in cutting-edge supercomputers — high-powered systems capable of processing calculations at speeds currently impossible using any other method. Exascale ...

Oak Ridge National Lab houses the world's first and fastest exascale supercomputer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5. (Image credit: Carlos Jones / ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy). The ...

Congress is directing the Energy Department to take the next decade to develop a new class of supercomputers capable of a quintillion operations per second to model nuclear weapons explosions, ...

It’s hard to imagine how a billion billion (i.e. a quintillion) calculations per second and beyond will affect the way we live and work, but such performance will bring new capabilities for a new set ...

This study will review the future of computing beyond exascale to meet national security needs at the National Nuclear Security Administration. (Exascale refers to a computer that performs 10^18 ...

One thing is certain: The explosion of data creation in our society will continue as far as pundits and anyone else can forecast. In response, there is an insatiable demand for more advanced high ...

A view looking at one corner of a the Frontier supercomputer. The machine's black cabinets receed into the background in a bright, white room. The back of these cabinets have been removed to show red ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a supercomputer named Frontier has broken the exascale computing barrier, meaning it can calculate more than a million trillion floating-point operations per second.

National Exascale Day will be on October 18, or “10 to the power of 18” calculations per second, which is what an exascale computer can do. The day is meant to recognize scientists who make ...

When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. Developed by Fujitsu and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, the system, now ...