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A day in the life of the fastest supercomputer
In the hills of eastern Tennessee, a record-breaking machine called Frontier is providing scientists with unprecedented opportunities to study everything from atoms to galaxies.
The electricity demand peaks at around 27 megawatts, enough to power roughly 10,000 houses, says Bronson Messer, director of science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, where Frontier is located. The Oak Ridge behemoth is the latest chart-topper in a decades-long global trend of pushing towards larger supercomputers(although it is possible that faster computers exist in military labs or otherwise secret facilities). Frontier excels at creating simulations that capture large-scale patterns with small-scale details, such as how tiny cloud droplets can affect the pace at which Earth’s climate warms.
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