Context: A new supercomputer in Wyoming will rank among the world's fastest and help study phenomena including climate change, severe weather, wildfires and solar flares.

• The HPE-Cray EX supercomputer will theoretically be able to perform almost 20 quadrillion calculations per second — 3.5 times faster than the existing machine at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
• The new machine's maximum speed per second will be roughly equivalent to each person on Earth completing a math equation every second for an entire month.
• That power will enable some of the most sophisticated simulations yet of large-scale natural and human-influenced events.
• The facility's current supercomputer, named Cheyenne, is over three times faster than its predecessor, which was named

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