US Knocks Japan Off Top Spot in Race for World’s Fastest Supercomputer

US Knocks Japan Off Top Spot in Race for World’s Fastest Supercomputer
A "Mistral" supercomputer, installed in 2016, at the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg, Germany, on June 7, 2017. Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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The United States has reclaimed the top spot from Japan in the race to create the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) massive Frontier supercomputer was declared the world’s fastest computer on May 30 on the TOP500 ranking, and is the first to achieve the exascale threshold of one quintillion calculations per second, the laboratory said in a May 30 Twitter post.
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