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What is a Supercomputer?

Click above to listen to part 1 of Supercomputer Showdown, featuring Katherine Riley, Director of Science, Argonne National Laboratory, Jack Wells, Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory National Center for Computational Sciences, and Katie Bethea, Communications Team Lead, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Molly and Emma Bentley pay a visit to Summit, the fastest supercomputer in the world (for now), located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Supercomputer Showdown
Part 1: What is a supercomputer?
Part 2: What is FLOPS?
Part 3: Supercomputers and AI
Part 4: Quantum Supremacy

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