Supercomputers are built of heaps of processors and can perform billions and trillions of computations per second, with power far greater than what traditional computers offer.
They enable the processing of massive amounts of data, new breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and future-facing modeling and simulation research that help the nation’s top experts build analyses and formulate predictions across many fields. For those reasons and others, the United States has for years been steadily investing in these machines of the future—and this year that continued.
