This photo shows Electra, NASA’s supercomputer, which is in research; and sometimes in research with Google. It is a petascale supercomputer; petascale computers perform one quadrillion – that’s one million billion – operations per second, and their algorithms and data analysis is expected to help solve big challenges such as environmental sustainability, disease prevention, and disaster recovery.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, is pioneering partnerships that have helped analyze and move computing research in bold new directions.

In the near future, we will see Petascale supercomputers succeeded by exascale computers.

At Insted, we have special computer courses to research intelligent systems and state-of-the-art quantum computing.