Supercomputers: When One Computer Just Isn’t Enough
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Supercomputers are massive systems with over a million CPU and GPU cores that consume enough electricity to power a small town, primarily owned by governments and wealthy corporations for climate modeling, nuclear simulations, and AI research. The world recently entered the exascale era, with machines like El Capitan performing over one quintillion calculations per second—a computational power that would take every person on Earth over four years to match in just one second.
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