Supercomputers: When One Computer Just Isn’t Enough

Supercomputers, or high-performance computing systems, combine millions of CPU and GPU cores to solve massive scientific problems using parallel processing. Benchmarked by the Top500 list using the HPL Linpack test, modern systems like Frontier, Aurora, and El Capitan operate at exascale—performing quintillions of calculations per second. These machines power research in climate science, AI, physics, and national security.