At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a supercomputer named Frontier has broken the exascale computing barrier, meaning it can calculate more than a million trillion floating-point operations per second. In this episode, C&EN reporters Craig Bettenhausen and Ariana Remmel discuss how Frontier works and what that kind of power could mean for computational chemistry.

C&EN Uncovered, a new project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Remmel’s Sept. 5, 2022, cover story about exascale computing at https://bit.ly/3RkPjr6.

Credits

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3HNK1S0.

Stereo Chemistry executive producer: Kerri Jansen
C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen
Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa
Copyeditor: Sabrina J. Ashwell
Additional review: Dorea Reeser, Manny I. Fox Morone, Michael Torrice
Episode artwork: Matt Chinworth
Music: "Hot Chocolate" by Aves

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