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An American Supercomputer Just Shattered the Speed Record. What’s That Mean?

The world of supercomputing can be quite competitive. In this clip from "The Virtual Opportunities Show" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on May 31, Fool.com contributors Demitri Kalogeropoulos and Jose Najarro discuss a New York Times article that stated a U.S. supercomputer named Frontier recently surpassed one in China to become the world's fastest. Demitri Kalogeropoulos: There's this machine called Frontier is the name of the computer that is now apparently the first one to have broken the speed barrier, which is 1 quintillion operations per second, which is a crazy number and I'm sure doesn't give you any context, but this won't help either. Read More...

The world of supercomputing can be quite competitive. In this clip from “The Virtual Opportunities Show” on Motley Fool Live, recorded on May 31, Fool.com contributors Demitri Kalogeropoulos and Jose Najarro discuss a New York Times article that stated a U.S. supercomputer named Frontier recently surpassed one in China to become the world’s fastest. Demitri Kalogeropoulos: There’s this machine called Frontier is the name of the computer that is now apparently the first one to have broken the speed barrier, which is 1 quintillion operations per second, which is a crazy number and I’m sure doesn’t give you any context, but this won’t help either.

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