DARPA Driving Development of Exascale Computers

August 11th, 2010

Via: BBC:

Computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second are being planned by the US military.

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has awarded the first grants to firms it wants to build so-called exascale computers.

These will be far more powerful than current top supercomputers which manage just over one petaflop – 1000 trilliion calculations per second.

Darpa expects the first prototypes to be working by 2018.

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