US Oak Ridge National Lab unveils world's most powerful supercomputer

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200-petaflop Summit supercomputer eight times more powerful than Titan, the supercomputer it supercedes at Oak Ridge

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has unveiled Summit, a supercomputer that it claims is the world's most powerful, displacing China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer from...

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