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Briefing
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- Most Powerful Supercomputer – U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in partnership with IBM, built world’s most powerful supercomputer, besting China’s fastest and previous record holder, Sunway TaihuLight
- Fast Performance – Capable of 200 petaflops or 200,000 trillion calculations per second, more than two times faster than China’s Sunway Taihulight and eight times more than U.S.’s previous fastest, Titan, also at ORNL
- Human Equivalent – Per second performance equivalent to 6.3 billion people making calculations simultaneously per second
- Potential Applications – Include energy research, artificial intelligence, scientific discovery, economic competitiveness, and national security
- Government Funded – Backed by government with $200 million funding
- Exascale by 2021 – Achievement one step closer to U.S.’ goal of developing exascale supercomputer, capable of quintillion calculations per second, by 2021
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