The term supercomputer does get tossed around a lot, but what does it actually mean? What does a computer need to do to be ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

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The US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has completed the installation of its new "Crossroads" supercomputer. The high-performance computing (HPC) cluster was delivered to the Strategic Computing ...