Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputer makes it to the top one hundred list

Published: July 28, 2022, 1:59 p.m.

Supercomputers keep getting faster. Just a few years ago it took teraflops -- or trillions of floating point operations per second -- to make the list of the world's fastest computers. Now it takes exaflops, quintillions of operations per second. And now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has switched on a machine that makes 1.1 exaflops of performance. It's called Frontier. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about Frontier with Oak Ridge distinguished scientist and Frontier project officer, Scott Atchley.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices