In a new episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast, leading figures from the team behind AiMOS, the powerful new supercomputer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explain how machines like it are transforming research and society.

Recorded before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the subject matter is timely because AiMOS, which is short for Artificial Intelligence Multiprocessing Optimized System, is actively engaged in a national consortium of supercomputers enabling advanced research on the disease.

Able to perform eight quadrillion calculations per second, AiMOS debuted in the November 2019 Top500 ranking of supercomputers as the 24th most powerful supercomputer in the world and the third-most energy efficient. Located at the Center for Computational Innovations (CCI) at Rensselaer, AiMOS also ranked as the most powerful supercomputer housed at a private university.

Christopher Carothers, director of the CCI, and John Kolb, vice president for information services and technology and chief information officer at Rensselaer, were both instrumental in bringing AiMOS to the Institute. They joined Why Not Change the World? for an insightful look into the past, present, and the exciting future of supercomputers.

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