The Privacy of Veterans' Health Records

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Heurokrij has genotype information now for over 800,000 patients and the goal is to get that to 2 million. The data sits here at a very secure enclave, it's a PHI certified enclave,. They're very strict access controls. Everybody goes through lots of training to be able to use this data. But the data that we see is anonymized; we don't see names or addresses.

Last May, the Oak Ridge National Lab, run by the US Department of Energy, unveiled Frontier–the world's fastest supercomputer. It’s capable of performing a quintillion calculations per second, breaking what's called the exascale barrier.

The system requires its own power plant, 6,000 gallons of water to keep it cool, and a highly trained staff to operate. So what can it do? And who gets to use it?

We set out for Knoxville, Tennessee to try to wrap our brains around Frontier’s limitless potential.

See more about Frontier here: It Takes 6,000 Gallons of Water to Cool the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

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