Performing an unimaginable number of operations in the shortest time possible, quantum computers inspire the imagination. Their task: to crack complicated equations. But how they do it is less simple. It marks a huge breakthrough in...
China already holds the two fastest supercomputers. Now it hopes to knock the USA off the third spot with the first ever exascale machine. Tianhe-3 will handle one quintillion calculations per second. Fast isn’t the...
Scientists have long puzzled over what dark matter, thought to account for 85 percent of the mass of the universe, is made of. With the help of a German supercomputer, they might just be a...
