China's installation of the world's fastest supercomputer is galvanizing efforts by U.S. government agencies and companies to restore American leadership in the technology, a key tool in such fields as climate research, product design and weapons development.
Participants hope to out race Chinese engineers in bringing a thousand-fold acceleration of today's most powerful machines—replaying a crusade in the past decade that leapfrogged a supercomputer in Japan that briefly held the world speed crown.
This time, the challenges could be much tougher. Achieving the next major leap in computing performance could require systems with as many as a billion electronic brains
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