IBM Unveils An AI Supercomputer

The United States is about to reclaim the top spot on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers. Summit, a $200 million system designed by International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) for the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is tailor-made for big data and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Capable of 200 quadrillion floating-point operations per second when fully operational, Summit is expected to handily beat out the Chinese system that currently tops the charts. This article originally appeared in the Motley Fool. IBM won the contract to build Summit and a smaller system back in 2014.