Exascale almost ready

Special, big black scientific machines have been with us since the 1940s. They’ve used pretty much the same amount of floor space but have gone up orders of magnitude in performance from generation to generation. At the start of 2022, the Frontier supercomputer is being installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and will be the first computer in the world to reach Exascale level performance.  Eniac, circa 1946—400 FLOPS   Eniac was developed during World War II to compute the values of artillery range tables. People used plug-boards to load kernels into the machine. The advantage was that once