New US Supercomputer Claims to Cut 500 Years of Hypersonic Research Work Into a Day

A new supercomputer with more than 186,000 processing cores is being positioned to handle advanced simulation and design workloads that would be prohibitively expensive or impossible to replicate physically.

Developed by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), “Flyer” is aimed at accelerating research into hypersonic weapons, AI model development, and next-generation military aircraft design.

Its core specifications include 800 terabytes of RAM and up to 18 petabytes of storage. AFRL officials said the system can complete in a single day what standard laptops would take around 500 years to process.

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