The U.S. Regains World's Fastest Supercomputer Title

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Thomas Zacharia, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 

with the Summit supercomputer.

The United States just won bragging rights in the race to build the world's speediest supercomputer, Steve Lohr reports on nytimes.com.

For five years, China had the world's fastest computer, a symbolic achievement for a country trying to show that it is a tech powerhouse, Lohr wrote.

But the United States retook the lead thanks to a machine, called Summit, built for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, he added.

For more: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/technology/supercomputer-china-us.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

For more from IBM about Summit and its mind-boggling capabilities: https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/summit-supercomputer/?cm_mmc=PSocial_Facebook-_-Corporate%20Advertising_Pillars-_-US_NA-_-25227900_Tracking%20Pixel&cm_mmca1=000027JP&cm_mmca2=10006704&cm_mmca4=25227900&cm_mmca5=53182093&cm_mmca6=07ec563c-50cb-433c-9054-7010e4765eff&cvosrc=social%20network%20paid.facebook.Discover%20Visits%20LP%20Sponsored%20Content%20%20%20%20%20Interests%20%20%20%20%20Facebook%20Supercomputer%20Tag%203_Prospecting_DesktopMobileTablet_1x1&cvo_campaign=000027JP&cvo_pid=25227900

For a cnet report on the new supercomputer: https://www.cnet.com/news/ibms-world-class-summit-supercomputer-gooses-speed-with-ai-abilities/

For a techcrunch report: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/08/ibms-new-summit-supercomputer-for-the-doe-delivers-200-petaflops/

 Photo: nytimes.com, Pinterest.

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