Obama has ordered ten years to develop a supercomputer that thirty times as fast as the current leader.
Last month it was announced again: TOP500, the ranking of the fastest supercomputers of today. The first place was, like the previous four years, for Tianhe-2 from the Chinese National University of Defense Technology. Apparently that Barack Obama was not good, because the US president has commissioned to build a supercomputer that far should leave behind the powerhouse in China.
Tianhe-2 currently has a speed of 33.86 petaflops, ie 33.86 quadrillion calculations ( floating point operations ) per second. The two highest ranked American supercomputers in the TOP500, Titan and Sequoia, come to half of that value. But the computer that Obama has in mind is of an entirely different order: the need to get at least 1,000 petaflops, or 1 exaFLOPS
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The first step comes mainly down to the various US organizations that are working together to make super computers working under one banner: the new National Strategic Computing intiative. Thereby join then include the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation to.
Then it is of course important to tackle the problems that cause the current supercomputers remain stabbing at ‘ but “few dozen petaflops. Also such exaFLOPS device takes a lot of energy, reports website The Verge : the entire output of one power station. And then the software must be developed that enables scientists to truly take advantage of as much computing power.
Plenty of obstacles on the road so. Yet the US strive to finish their exaFLOPS computer in 2025. Further, IBM hopes over two years to deliver two supercomputers to reach 100 petaflops; yet again three times the current number one. And it can be assumed that will not sit still, the Chinese
Sources:. Wired, The Verge, TOP500
Image: Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-SA 2.0
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