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Thinking War Machines Means to U.S. Security Are Growing Darker and More Dire
Jun 20, 2013WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
Tags: War Machines, Exascale
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China Has Produced a Supercomputer That May Be Recognized as The World's Fastest System
Jun 17, 2013China has produced a supercomputer capable of running at 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system in the forthcoming Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The new system -- called Tianhe-2, ...
Tags: Supercomputing, Tianhe-2
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The Possible Fate of Big Bird Is Now Known
Dec 25, 2012After last night's presidential debate, the possible fate of Big Bird is now known. But the rival candidates gave no insight into the possible fate of exascale systems, the next generation of supercomputers. In the 90-minute debate ...
Tags: Big Bird, exascale systems, supercomputers
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Researchers at The SC12 Conference Offered Solutions to Growing Resilience Problems
Dec 20, 2012As supercomputers grow more powerful, they’ll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few researchers at the recent SC12 conference, held last week in Salt Lake City, offered ...
Tags: Exascale, Resilience, supercomputers, computer
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The U.S.Dept.of Energy Is Now Targeting 2020 to 2022 for an Exascale System
Dec 17, 2012The U.S.Dept.of Energy,which builds the world's largest supercomputers,is now targeting 2020 to 2022 for an exascale system,two to four years later than earlier expectations. The new timeframe assumes that Congress will fund the project ...
Tags: The U.S.Dept.of Energy, world's largest supercomputers, exascale system