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<p>A mockup of Cray's, El-Capitan, the NNSA's first exascale supercomputer.&nbsp;</p>

Cray supercomputer to handle US nukes

The $600 million supercomputer will be among the world's fastest.

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<p>IBM owns the world's two fastest supercomputers in the world.</p>

China has over 100 more supercomputers than US, Top500 says

But the two most powerful supercomputers are in the US.

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<p>Cray</p>

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire Cray, consolidating supercomputer power

It'll pay $1.3 billion to take over the maker of what'll be the world's fastest machine.

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<p>The IBM-built Sierra supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is today's second-fastest supercomputer, but it'll be about a sixteenth as fast as the Cray-built Frontier due in 2021.</p>

World's fastest supercomputer coming to US in 2021 from Cray, AMD

The Energy Department awards a $600 million contract to build Frontier, while China and other countries are buying more supercomputers.

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<p>A mockup of the Intel-Cray Aurora supercomputer</p>

Intel-built Aurora supercomputer will exascale performance level

The Intel-Cray system should arrive in 2021, but Chinese, Japanese and European rivals could come a year earlier.

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<p>The GT500 is the most powerful Mustang ever and keeping it cool at wide open throttle requires some seriously smart design.</p>

Ford's Shelby GT500 leverages supercomputers to go fast and stay cool

Ford's engineers used wildly powerful computers to help the GT500 stay cool and planted on the road.

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<p>IBM built Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sierra supercomputer.</p>

US claims top 2 spots on supercomputing list

But China has more of the 500 fastest machines on the planet than ever, and the US hits an all-time low.

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Summit is the world's smartest computer

IBM's newest supercomputer Summit is eight times more powerful than its predeccesor.

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<p>Some of the racks of computer nodes that make up the Summit supercomputer built by IBM at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.</p>

With IBM Summit supercomputer, US reclaims top spot from China in high-powered computing

But China has even more systems on the latest Top500 supercomputer list.

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<p>The Sandia Science &amp; Technology Park, part of Sandia National Laboratories headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.</p>

Arm chips, like those in your phone, will power massive Astra supercomputer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Astra machine will study nuclear weapons' safety and reliability. It'll be fast, but not the fastest.

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<p>Some of the racks of computer nodes that make up the Summit supercomputer built by IBM at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.</p>

IBM's world-class Summit supercomputer gooses speed with AI abilities

It's as big as two tennis courts and has 9,216 processors boosted with 27,648 graphics chips.

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<p>The steady increase in computing power on the Top500 list of supercomputers tailed off in recent years. This chart shows the performance of all 500 machines as the orange triangle points, the single fastest as the brown triangle and the 500th on the list as the yellow square. For example, today's slowest machine has the performance of the fastest one in 2008.</p>

China's supercomputers race past US to world dominance

China doesn't just have the single fastest supercomputer in the world. It now dominates the list of the 500 fastest.

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