Supercomputers play a vital role in scientific discoveries — from helping us forecast climate change to discovering new drugs. We've rounded up the top fastest on the planet right now.

[Chris Fenton] spent a year and a half constructing a 1/10th scale Cray-1 reproduction. The famous supercomputer was meticulously modelled in a field programmable gate array for a “nearly ...

Last year we saw [Chris]’ fully functional 1/10th scale Cray-1 supercomputer built around ... This left him with a magnetic image of the disk pack that was ready for some data analysis.

Taking up just 44 ft², Crusher is just a fraction of the size of the Department of Energy's 27-petaflop Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer. However, it's faster than the full 4,352 ft² system ...

The supercomputer that previously held the No. 1 position, a Cray XT5 "Jaguar" system running at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee ...