World's Fastest Super Computer
US Department of Energy's Aurora Source: Argonne National Lab One Billion-Billion Operations Per Second At the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, the US' first exascale supercomputer will be built at a cost of $500 million. It will perform one quintillion, or ten with 18 zeros, operations per second. That's 50 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers. Argonne is operated by the University of Chicago. Aurora is scheduled to start operating in 2021. Tremendous Possibilities The potential uses of this new supercomputer are tremendous. It's being built for next generation artificial intelligence and combines that with unprecedented processing power. Argonne Director Paul Kearns says it will accelerate breakthrough medical treatments, human brain mapping, improve extreme weather forecasting and much more. It's also a powerful tool for simulations (in the picture above) that mo...