Supercomputer Breakthrough: Quintillion Calculations Per Second

Computer development is expected by Intel, but technocrats within the Department of Energy have stretched their mission statement to include computer development in a public-private partnership arrangement. ⁃ TN EditorIntel and the US Department of Energy announced Monday that they would build Aurora, described as the US’s first exascale supercomputer.
An exascale supercomputer, capable of processing 1 quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second, could be used for