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New exascale supercomputer can do a quintillion calculations a second — Scientific American

The 9,472 different nodes in the supercomputer—each essentially its own not-so-super computer—are also all connected in such a way that they can pass information quickly from one place to another, writes Sarah Scoles.

Here is the link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-exascale-supercomputer-can-do-a-quintillion-calculations-a-second/

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