{"id":239968,"date":"2026-06-30T03:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-wright-patt-supercomputer-calculates-in-a-day-what-would-take-average-laptop-500-years"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:07:43","slug":"new-wright-patt-supercomputer-calculates-in-a-day-what-would-take-average-laptop-500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-wright-patt-supercomputer-calculates-in-a-day-what-would-take-average-laptop-500-years","title":{"rendered":"New Wright-Patt supercomputer calculates in a day what would take average laptop 500 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-wright-patt-supercomputer-calculates-in-a-day-what-would-take-average-laptop-500-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wright Patterson Air Force Base has a new advanced problem solver for future military systems and weapons. It\u2019s called the Flyer, named in honor of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their research in aerodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyer is the Pentagon\u2019s latest supercomputer. It has more than 186,000 cores able to process millions of advanced calculations in a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>David Shahady, deputy director of the Air Force Research Laboratory\u2019s Digital Capabilities Directorate, equated the abilities of this unit to a pop-culture sci-fi character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright Patterson Air Force Base has a new advanced problem solver for future military systems and weapons. It\u2019s called the Flyer, named in honor of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their research in aerodynamics. The Flyer is the Pentagon\u2019s latest supercomputer. It has more than 186,000 cores able to process millions of advanced calculations in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239968","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}