With the world’s first exascale supercomputer now fully open for scientific business, researchers can thank the early users who helped get the machine up to speed. Frontier set a new record for computational power when the HPE Cray EX supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory debuted in May 2022 at 1.1 exaflops, or 1.1 quintillion calculations per second. That’s a billion billion operations, equal to the entire population of Earth working in concert for more th...