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Top 5 Supercomputers In The World

Supercomputers are high-level computers used for managing very large databases or great amounts of computation. Tom Merritt lists the top five ranked supercomputers in the world, according to TOP500. HPE is building a supercomputer called LUMI in Finland, and it is expected to have peak performance of more than 550 petaflops, putting it at the top of the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Let’s check in on the top supercomputers right now. Twice a year since 1993, TOP500 has ranked the world’s supercomputers. Here are the top five supercomputers. 5. Tianhe-2A. This supercomputer, also known as Milky Way-2A, is located at…
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Red Hat Powers The Future of Supercomputing With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the operating system backbone for the top three supercomputers in the world and four out of the top 10, according to the newest TOP500 ranking. Already serving as a catalyst for enterprise innovation across the hybrid cloud, these rankings also show that the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform can deliver a foundation to meet even the most demanding computing environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is designed to run seamlessly on a variety of architectures underlying leading supercomputers, playing an important part in…
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ABB Collaborates With HPE To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Supercomputers

ABB is collaborating with its global, strategic partner, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), on jointly developed technology to significantly reduce the energy consumption of high-performance supercomputers, while at the same time increasing their computing capacity and reliability. Answers to some of society’s most pressing challenges are buried in massive amounts of data. The world’s top research centers use supercomputers to find answers to some of the most complicated problems such as pandemic modeling, precision medicine, climate change and quantum mechanics. HPE’s Cray supercomputers use a tailored ABB higher voltage direct current (DC)1 power supply solution, which makes it possible to reduce the…
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Did We Really Achieve Quantum Supremacy?

Google recently revealed a quantum computer which they claim can solve in minutes what a problem a present-day supercomputer would need thousands of years to solve. They published their findings in a Nature article, Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor. With this breakthrough, Google claims to have attained quantum supremacy. Prior to this, a draft of the said paper was leaked back in September. This fueled discussions over whether or not Google can rightfully claim that quantum supremacy has been attained. Have they? Haven’t they? Let’s figure out. What is quantum supremacy? Quantum supremacy refers to the point where quantum…
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