IBM said that in the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. Today, just three of Roadrunner's 3,456 tri-blade units have the same power as the 1998 fastest computer.

In June, IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer set a world record of 1 petaflop or 1,000 trillion calculations per second -- equivalent to the combined computing power of 100,000 of today's fastest ...

To somewhat work around these limitations, IBM has now pitched the idea of a hybrid quantum-classical computer (marketed as ‘quantum-centric supercomputing’), which as the name suggests ...