supercomputers

The 21st century oil and gas industry thrives on hardcore computing power, crunching data derived from seismic testing to find oil deep in the ground and below the sea. Now, an Australian company will fire up a digital behemoth in a data center near the Houston suburb.

Skybox Datacenters has signed a 15-MW lease with a client that will host a supercomputer in its Houston facility. The client expects the system to beat Summit, the US Department of Energy supercomputer that is currently considered the world’s fastest.