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World’s most powerful supercomputers

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A supercomputer is a computer that is extremely fast. It can perform a massive number of calculations per second.

They are composed of numerous processing units or processing units.

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Frontier, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, is housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

People who want to access the machine’s massive computing power do so remotely.

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National laboratories in the United States house some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Others work at research facilities in Japan, China, and Europe.

Many home computers can even be linked together to create “virtual” supercomputing.

Some of these machines power the AI systems that power virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa.

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