President Obama has released an executive order entitled “Creating a national strategic computing initiative” issuing demands to build the world’s first exascale computing system that will potentially power the country’s government departments and facilitate high-performance computing (HPC) research and development. Exascale supercomputer
The plan to build a computing system that performs 1 million trillion floating-point operations per second or 1 exa-flops is impressive indeed, as it will surpass the capability of any existing supercomputers […]
