The particles that make up light, photons, may live for at least 1 quintillion (1 billion multiplied by 1 billion) years, new research suggests. If photons can die, they could give off particles that ...

Intel said on Monday that it would build the US's most powerful supercomputer, so fast that it could process 1 quintillion — 1 billion times 1 billion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 — calculations per ...

Amid a seesaw battle with China in the race for supercomputer supremacy, the US is now working on building the world's first exascale computer. US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced on Monday ...

Europe's fastest supercomputer is now operational, and boy howdy does it have an impressive specs sheet. The JUPITER project (which stands for Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and ...

Scientists have set an ambitious target for China's Tianhe-3 supercomputer to meet by 2020, the goal of making a quintillion calculations per second. The supercomputer is expected to hit the speed - ...

Scientists in China are developing the world's first computer capable of performing 1 quintillion calculations per second, according to state media. A prototype of the exascale computer, described as ...