According to a report by CNBC, IBM's new Summit supercomputer runs on 185 miles of high-speed cable, weighs more than a commercial aircraft, spans two tennis courts, and occupies 5,600 square feet of a lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Summit is also currently the world's most powerful supercomputer and it's thanks to ECE ILLINOIS alumna Hillery Hunter (BSEE '99, MS '02, PhD '04) that this supercomputer is capable of running an estimated 200,000 trillion calculations per second with stunning accuracy. At Illinois, Hunter was advised by AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wen-mei Hwu.
