The Department of Energy has awarded six grants totaling $ 258 million for research on the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The mission of the ECP is to deliver at least one exascale-capable system by 2021. Such a system would be able to execute one exaflop, a billion billion calculations per second. U.S. Secretary of Energy […]
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US gov’t taps The Machine to beat China to exascale supercomputing
HPE With China threatening to build the world’s first exascale supercomputer before the US, the US Department of Energy has awarded a research grant to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to develop an exascale supercomputer reference design based on technology gleaned from the The Machine, a project that aims to “reinvent the fundamental architecture of computing.” The DoE historically […]