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Video of the week - Kids give us their take on supercomputers

Some kids can make anything cute, and these ones are no exception.

Some kids can make anything cute, and these ones are no exception.

When these kids visited the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the scientists there asked them some really tough questions: What are supercomputers? What do they look like? How fast are they? What do they do?

Watch our video of the week to hear what the kids had to say, and the explanations that follow.

—Miriam Boon, iSGTW

Posted on Dec 1 2010 1:00am

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