Exaflop computer?

[techs]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187702/China_s_big_hole_marks_scale_of_supercomputing_race

The intent of the forum was to update attendees on efforts that are underway to build the next generation of supercomputers -- exaflop systems that will be 1,000 times more powerful than today's petaflop systems. A petaflop is a quadrillion, or 1,000 trillion, sustained floating-point operations per second. An exaflop is 1 quintillion, or 1 million trillion, floating-point operations per second.

That means having an exascale system by 2020.



Will it run Windoze 2020?

 

[amdhunter]

I bet Crysis will still run like shit.

 

[gorcorps]

...why?

 

[frostedflakes]

...why?

Scientific computing.

 

[Bill Brasky]

That was a nice article.

"That's a truck -- that's a big truck, that's a big hole, and that's going to be a big building. And that's only the first building they are going to build there."....David Turek, IBM's vice president of deep computing, displayed a slide with a picture depicting a large construction site for a building that will house a massive computer. "You have sovereign nations making material investments of a tremendous magnitude to basically eat our lunch, eat our collective lunch," Turek said.