Obama Wants US To Build World's First Exascale Supercomputer
United States President, Obama wants to have the world's first ever exascale supercomputer. On July 29th, he signed an executive order for creating a national strategic computing initiative. It's an ambitious program that holds promise to solve some of the toughest challenges and world's complex problems. The program will aim to develop an exascale computing system capable of performing about billion billion (no typo here!) calculations in a second.
The exascale supercomputer will be able to correctly figure out climate changes, help scientists discover new materials and even study the human brain, reports The Washington Post. Professor Thomas Sterling, the chief scientist at Indiana University's research center in extreme scale technologies, said that an exascale computing system would be equivalent of about 100 million to about a billion of current generation of laptops. No one knows how long will it take to develop such a system.
The research required to realise the exascale computing systems is likely to take about a decade or so; depending upon the funding and engineers ability to overcome technical challenges. The department of energy, department of defence and national science foundation will lead this project.
The United States currently has multiple entries in the TOP500 list of supercomputers, but its top position was taken by China's Tianhe-2, with top performance of 54.9 petaflops. The rankings are likely to change as the US is currently readying a 180 petaflops supercomputer.
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The exascale supercomputer will be able to correctly figure out climate changes, help scientists discover new materials and even study the human brain, reports The Washington Post. Professor Thomas Sterling, the chief scientist at Indiana University's research center in extreme scale technologies, said that an exascale computing system would be equivalent of about 100 million to about a billion of current generation of laptops. No one knows how long will it take to develop such a system.
The research required to realise the exascale computing systems is likely to take about a decade or so; depending upon the funding and engineers ability to overcome technical challenges. The department of energy, department of defence and national science foundation will lead this project.
The United States currently has multiple entries in the TOP500 list of supercomputers, but its top position was taken by China's Tianhe-2, with top performance of 54.9 petaflops. The rankings are likely to change as the US is currently readying a 180 petaflops supercomputer.
The race among the nations to build the fastest computer is on; but the industry disruption would definitely come from someone who figures out how to build #-Link-Snipped-#. We look forward to your thoughts.
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