Earlier this year, the Department of Energy tasked six major computing companies with building an exascale supercomputer—a machine capable of a quintillion calculations per second. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) was one of those six.

Exascale represents a huge moment for the computing industry, but even more so, a moment for every global citizen looking to make progress in fields like cancer research, climate change, and space exploration. Those are the stakes behind what many are calling “the modern-day space race”, and the very reason why HPE wanted to rally audiences around this consequential mission.

To do this, we went inside the global race to exascale by creating a short documentary called “Eighteen Zeros”—a reference to the number of zeros in a quintillion—and revealed how exascale stands to solve humanity’s greatest problems.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an American technology offering worldwide IT, enterprise products, solutions, and services. Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable a quintillion calculations per second. Exascale computing is considered as a significant achievement in computer engineering.