The goal is to grant researchers access to powerful computing resources days after they submit their projects. To be able to tackle that, we need to accelerate science,” Mr. Gil said. Supercomputers are used to tackle computational problems in initiatives such as drug discovery, materials development and battery design. Supercomputers have thousands or tens of thousands of processors that coordinate and work together to perform large calculations, Mr. Gil said. Supercomputers are also particularly well-suited for processing and analyzing large amounts of data using artificial-intelligence algorithms, Mr. Gil said.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 22, 2020 22:07 UTC