Supercomputers

Sanctions can at best slow China from taking the global lead in chip manufacturing. At their worst, they will raise the chances of chip wars spilling into a physical or economic…

Faster than a speeding tsessebe, South Africa’s high-speed computer processors are far from a flop.

After the indignity of seeing its economy overtaken by China’s, Japan has clawed back a little pride by producing the world’s most powerful computer.

Tianhe-1A, named for the Milky Way, is capable of sustained computing of 2,507 petaflops — equivalent to 2 507-trillion calculations — each second.

Christina Scott reports on how South Africa and Egypt are using supercomputers to avert disasters

Roadrunner was always expected to be fast out of the blocks. And after a test run one night in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, its creators were far from disappointed.