How Supercomputers Solve Super Problems

Today's supercomputers are marvels of computational power, and they are being used to tackle some of the world's biggest scientific problems, Tanya Lewis with LiveScience reports on NBCNews.com.

These computational behemoths are tens of thousands faster than the average desktop computer, Lews said.

They achieve their lightning-fast speeds via parallel processing, where many computer processors perform computations simultaneously.

Supercomputers are used for tasks ranging from forecasting the weather to modeling the human brain, Lewis writes.

For the record, I'm an IBM retiree.

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