Is the End of Moore’s Law Slowing the World’s Supercomputing Race?

Every six months, a team of supercomputing academics compiles a list of the most powerful computers on the planet. It’s called the Top500 list, and it has become a competition of sorts. National labs vie against universities, military facilities, NASA, and even temporary cloud-based supercomputers–all to see who’s building the worlds’ largest number-crunching machines. This […]