{"id":180941,"date":"2024-01-20T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/supercomputer-uses-machine-learning-to-set-new-speed-record"},"modified":"2024-01-20T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:26:19","slug":"supercomputer-uses-machine-learning-to-set-new-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/supercomputer-uses-machine-learning-to-set-new-speed-record","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer uses machine learning to set new speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ny_NvpuaAiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Give people a barrier, and at some point they are bound to smash through. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947. Yuri Gagarin burst into orbit for the first manned spaceflight in 1961. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/human-genome-sequencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Human Genome Project<\/a> finished cracking the genetic code in 2003. And we can add one more barrier to humanity\u2019s trophy case: the exascale barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The exascale barrier represents the challenge of achieving exascale-level computing, which has long been considered the benchmark for high performance. To reach that level, however, a computer needs to perform a quintillion calculations per second. You can think of a quintillion as a million trillion, a billion billion, or a million million millions. Whichever you choose, it\u2019s an incomprehensibly large number of calculations.<\/p>\n<p>On May 27, 2022, Frontier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/hard-tech\/fastest-supercomputer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a supercomputer<\/a> built by the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed the feat. It performed 1.1 quintillion calculations per second to become the fastest computer in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give people a barrier, and at some point they are bound to smash through. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947. Yuri Gagarin burst into orbit for the first manned spaceflight in 1961. The Human Genome Project finished cracking the genetic code in 2003. And we can add one more barrier to humanity\u2019s trophy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6,1514,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}