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Director of the world’s fastest supercomputer explains how they did it

The world’s fastest supercomputer — called Frontier — is whizzing away in a national lab located in the foothills of East Tennessee. It’s the only machine in the world that has ever demonstrated that it could perform more than one quintillion (that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. In the language of computer science, that’s called an…

Director of the world’s fastest supercomputer explains how they did it

Whitt: You break it down into a lot of really big steps, and then you break those down into smaller steps. Basically, you’re figuring out what experts you need and what resources you can draw on. For instance, you might not think that deploying a supercomputer takes a tremendous amount of construction, but with Frontier,…