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Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation

  • Written by Jack Dongarra, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Tennessee
Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovationOak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer is one of the world's fastest.Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, CC BY

High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in secret labs, but it’s actually one of the most important technologies in the world today. From predicting the weather...

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