Forget 2014, let’s talk about what to expect in 2020, just six years from now, say a supercomputer finally capable of mongo-calculative deftness on par with what some believe to be the processing ...

In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for exascale-class HPC systems capable of a quintillion (10 18) or more calculations per ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Congress is directing the Energy Department to take the next decade to develop a new class of supercomputers capable of a quintillion ...

The UK government has announced that its going to build a new exascale supercomputer that will be 50 times more powerful than its most powerful supercomputer. It said that Edinburgh, the Scottish ...

On the heels of the US government’s announced in March that the first US exascale computer is being built just outside Chicago and coming in 2021, the US government announced today that it’s also ...

The UK today said it had selected Edinburgh to host its first exascale next-gen supercomputer, which will be 50 times faster than its current highest capacity system. The University of Edinburgh will ...

To maintain its lead in supercomputing, the US has budgeted over $500 million to build the first "exascale" computer in the world in 2021. The new system, dubbed Aurora, will be capable of completing ...

For the past several years, the world's power have been locked in a supercomputing arms race, one-upping one another with biggest and faster achievements. According to a new announcement, the world’s ...

A quintillion calculations a second. That's one with 18 zeros after it. It's the speed at which an exascale supercomputer will process information. The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing for the ...

National Exascale Day will be on October 18, or “10 to the power of 18” calculations per second, which is what an exascale computer can do. The day is meant to recognize scientists who make ...

Intel and the Department of Energy have announced plans to deploy the first supercomputer with a sustained performance of one exaflop by 2021. That's a bit of a slip compared to previous milestones -- ...

The scale of supercomputing has grown almost too large to comprehend, with millions of compute units performing calculations at rates requiring, for first time, the exa prefix — denoting quadrillions ...