Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype system ...

Jet engines are built to terrifyingly tight tolerances, yet the latest simulations on the world’s first exascale supercomputer suggest their biggest weakness may be measured in micrometers.

A new kind of supercomputer is now running at Sandia National Laboratories, and it does not look like the giants that usually grab headlines. It is smaller, experimental and built around an idea that ...