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Exascale computing

Computing at a scale of at least one quintillion operations per second; ORNL’s Frontier was the lab’s first exascale system.

Desk reviewed 2026-11-03

DOE says Discovery will arrive in 2028 with performance far exceeding Frontier. [U.S. Department of Energy]

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