China is no longer content to dominate supercomputing on the ground. It is now wiring thousands of satellites into a single, ...

From left) Yuetsu Komada, Mitsuhisa Sato and Tamiya Onodera. © 2026 RIKEN A pioneering project led by RIKEN is underway to ...

At a high level, a supercomputer is exactly what it sounds like—namely, a computer so much more powerful than a desktop as to deserve the superlative. What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just ...