The Cray-2 supercomputer was the peak of computing power back in 1985, but a modern iPhone puts that old hardware to shame in ...
One of the most common ways of comparing the processing power of some microcontroller or older smartphone in a fantastical ...
A plethora of notable early computers from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen are to be put up for auction. Auction house Christie's is putting up hundreds of items across three sales ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise PE has a long history in supercomputing, with efforts like its Apollo family of systems aimed at data-intensive workloads like HPC, data analytics, and storage, and its $275 ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?

At a high level, a supercomputer is exactly what it sounds like—namely, a computer so much more powerful than a desktop as to deserve the superlative. What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just ...