Exaflop Barrier

An American supercomputer just broke the exaflop barrier and became the fastest in the world

(ORDO NEWS) — The US has succeeded in developing the world‘s first “true” exascale supercomputer, fulfilling a promise made by President Obama nearly seven years ago and ushering in a new era of computing power. For now, the fastest supercomputers in the world were still running at petascale, doing a quadrillion calculations per second. Exaflops takes this to a whole new level, reaching quintillion operations per second. The Frontier supercomputer,…