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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">"<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-its-supercomputer-leaps-ahead-of-chinese-rival-1528473600" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;background-color:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:1px">According to<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">The Wall Street Journal</em></a>, researchers will be using Summit to try and solve some big medical questions, such as developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s or addiction. And as<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611385/americas-new-supercomputer-beats-chinas-fastest-machine-to-take-the-worlds-most/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;background-color:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:1px">MIT Technology Review reported</a></em>, Summit marks the first time that a supercomputer was designed specifically to work with the latest in artificial intelligence developments.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This means that even more than its incredible computing power, Summit is built to find answers to questions in ways that people wouldn’t even think to program into a computer. For instance, Summit’s machine learning capabilities could be trained to go through as much medical data as could possibly be fed to it to find never-before-detected causes or signs of diseases.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The researchers who built Summit hope to use it as a trial for the supercomputers of the future. If Summit is able to perform as engineers expect it to, and the new tricks they used to build it (like the emphasis on machine learning) pan out, then Summit could inspire computers capable of so-called exascale computing, the name for when a computer could complete one quintillion calculations per second,<span> </span><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611077/the-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer-is-tailor-made-for-the-ai-era/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;background-color:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:1px">according to<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">MIT Technology Review</em></a>. For reference, Summit only has one-fifth the power of an exascale supercomputer. So we’ve got a ways to go."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></p></div><a href="https://futurism.com/america-fastest-supercomputer-summit/">https://futurism.com/america-fastest-supercomputer-summit/</a><br></div>