supercomputing
High-performance data processing
Supercomputing is the use of the most powerful computers available—machines capable of performing calculations far beyond ordinary systems.
Supercomputers tackle problems requiring massive parallel processing: weather modeling, nuclear simulations, genomic analysis.
The field pushes the boundaries of computational speed, measured in petaflops or exaflops: The lab's supercomputing resources enabled climate projections that would take decades on standard hardware.
Unsuccessful ventures or releases
- teraflopsComputational speed unit
- petaflopsQuadrillion floating-point operations per second
- gigahertzFrequency unit, billions
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
latency · throughput · parallelism · scalability · benchmarking · vectorization · pipelining · multithreading
Gathered group nearby
- datacenterFacility housing networked computers
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- FrontierBudget American airline
- coolingLosing thermal energy
electricity · megawatts · grid · racks · nodes · interconnect · storage · facility
Imitation of real processes
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- astrophysicsPhysics of celestial bodies
- genomicsStudy of entire genetic sequences
- bioinformaticsComputational analysis of genetic data
neuroscience · cosmology · seismology · epidemiology · aerodynamics
Forming mental or graphical images
Quantum computing's basic units
- entanglementState of being intertwined
- superpositionCoexisting in multiple states
- decoherenceLoss of quantum coherence
- cryogenicExtremely low temperature
flops
Unsuccessful ventures or releases
- teraflopsComputational speed unit
- petaflopsQuadrillion floating-point operations per second
- gigahertzFrequency unit, billions
bandwidth · latency · throughput · parallelism · scalability · benchmarking · vectorization · pipelining · multithreading · cache
cluster
Gathered group nearby
- datacenterFacility housing networked computers
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- FrontierBudget American airline
cooling · electricity · megawatts · grid · racks · nodes · interconnect · storage · facility · operations
simulation
Imitation of real processes
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- astrophysicsPhysics of celestial bodies
- genomicsStudy of entire genetic sequences
bioinformatics · neuroscience · cosmology · seismology · epidemiology · aerodynamics
visualization
Forming mental or graphical images
CPU
Main computing chip
- acceleratorsThings that speed up
qubits
Quantum computing's basic units
- entanglementState of being intertwined
- superpositionCoexisting in multiple states
- decoherenceLoss of quantum coherence
- Computing Modelsbiocomputing
- computingcomputers, software, hardware, code, coding
- Big ScienceCERN, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, particle accelerator, synchrotron
- cyberinfrastructurenetwork infrastructure, data centers, university networks, backbone, middleware
- distributed computingnodes, node, parallel processing, cluster, load balancing
- ORNL Researchnuclear research, energy research, materials science, nuclear physics, fusion research
supercomputingmental arithmetic
Computing numbers without tools
desktop computing · personal computing · pocket calculator · microcomputing · pencil and paper
supercomputinganalog computing
Processing via continuous physical quantities
computer, compute, computing, computed, computation, computerized, computerize, computerization, computable