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b'Do you have a hard-to-answer question?\\xa0The Summit, Sierra, Trinity, Frontier, and Aurora supercomputers are built to tackle it.\\xa0Summit tops the petaflop heap \\u2013 at least for now. But Frontier and Aurora are catching up as they take aim at a new performance benchmark called exascale.\\xa0\\xa0\\nSo why do we need all this processing power?\\xa0From climate modeling to personalized medicine, find out why the super-est computers are necessary to answer our biggest questions. But is the dark horse candidate, quantum computing, destined to leave classical computing in the dust?\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nKatherine Riley\\xa0- Director of Science, Argonne National Laboratory\\n\\n\\nJack Wells\\xa0- Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory National Center for Computational Sciences\\n\\n\\n Katie Bethea\\xa0- Communications Team Lead, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory\\n\\n\\nJeffrey Hawkins\\xa0-\\xa0Technologist and neuroscientist.\\xa0Co-founder of Palm, Handspring and Numenta\\n\\n\\nEleanor Rieffel\\xa0- Mathematician, NASA Ames Research Center, and co-author of \\u201cQuantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor,\\u201d published in\\xa0Nature\\xa0magazine\\n\\nOriginally aired November 4, 2019\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'