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title: The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record
description: The US Department of Energy has revealed that Summit, recently crowned the world’s fastest supercomputer, has broken a new record. Researchers set it on a machine-learning experiment to predict climate events over the next 100 years. It blasted through the data at a rate of a  billion billion operations per second.
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# [The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record](https://northerncal.swagelok.com/blog/the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-breaks-an-ai-record)

 Written by [Jeff Hopkins](https://northerncal.swagelok.com/blog/author/jeff-hopkins) | 3/27/19 8:00 PM

The US Department of Energy has revealed that Summit, recently crowned the world’s fastest supercomputer, has broken a new record. Researchers set it on a machine-learning experiment to predict climate events over the next 100 years. It blasted through the data at a rate of **a  billion billion operations per second**.

[Read the full article on *Wired *→](https://www.wired.com/story/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-breaks-ai-record/)

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