The latest Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers turns the spotlight on China, which overtook the United States in the total number of ranked systems and which scored the top two fastest installations on the list. Announcements from IBM, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices, however, position the U.S. industry for a comeback. Rather than target systems that test well on the Top500’s distributed-memory version of the Linpack benchmarks (High Performance Linpack), the companies aim to render those measurements irrelevant on their way to beating China to exascale computing.

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