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26 Feb 2011, 1:31 pm
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ob ... le_com.php
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The Obama Administration's 2012 budget includes $126 million for the development of exascale supercomputing. The last budget marked out only $24 million for supercomputing.
Exascale computing systems are said to be capable of 1,000 times the processing power of the fastest computer currently operational, the Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer.
The Department of Energy's Office of Science will get $91 million, while the National Nuclear Security Administration will receive $36 million, if the budget is approved by congress.
Advanced computing has a DOE total budget about of $465 million, an increase of 21% over 2010.
Supercomputers are used to model complex systems. The higher-functioning the supercomputer the more accurate a model can be, whether of weather, war or global warming. Currently, supercomputer processing speeds are rendered in terms of a petaflop, one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
Exascale computing, which most experts believe will be achievable by 2021, will increase this a thousandfold.
The ability to compute in exabytes seems increasingly necessary as the amount of data available increases cataclysmically. Eight years ago there were only about five exabytes of data online. Two years ago, that amount of flowed over the Internet in a month. But recent estimates put the monthly Internet data flow at 21 exabytes.
The problem with reaching this milestone is not so much computing development as it is power requirements. According to supercomputing specialist Peter Kogge, the development of exascale is liable to hit a "power wall."
"(S)uccess in assembling such a machine will demand a coordinated cross-disciplinary effort carried out over a decade or more...to find the right combination of processing circuitry, memory structures, and communications conduits -- something that can beat what are normally voracious power requirements down to manageable levels."
Exascale computing systems are said to be capable of 1,000 times the processing power of the fastest computer currently operational, the Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer.
The Department of Energy's Office of Science will get $91 million, while the National Nuclear Security Administration will receive $36 million, if the budget is approved by congress.
Advanced computing has a DOE total budget about of $465 million, an increase of 21% over 2010.
Supercomputers are used to model complex systems. The higher-functioning the supercomputer the more accurate a model can be, whether of weather, war or global warming. Currently, supercomputer processing speeds are rendered in terms of a petaflop, one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
Exascale computing, which most experts believe will be achievable by 2021, will increase this a thousandfold.
The ability to compute in exabytes seems increasingly necessary as the amount of data available increases cataclysmically. Eight years ago there were only about five exabytes of data online. Two years ago, that amount of flowed over the Internet in a month. But recent estimates put the monthly Internet data flow at 21 exabytes.
The problem with reaching this milestone is not so much computing development as it is power requirements. According to supercomputing specialist Peter Kogge, the development of exascale is liable to hit a "power wall."
"(S)uccess in assembling such a machine will demand a coordinated cross-disciplinary effort carried out over a decade or more...to find the right combination of processing circuitry, memory structures, and communications conduits -- something that can beat what are normally voracious power requirements down to manageable levels."
With this type of processing power we could be make breakthroughs in science which could even further accelerate the goal of bringing useful technology to every living person on the planet.
Firstly we need a renewable source of energy for such a system to always be possible but should hopefully come in a couple decades I am hoping thanks to nano-tech solar cell research, but that is another story.
Imagine the differences this type of computing power could make.
Hope achievements from it are not restricted to private use.
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26 Feb 2011, 4:10 pm
26 Feb 2011, 5:14 pm
26 Feb 2011, 5:37 pm
Moog wrote:
The singularity is coming, long live our new AI masters.
I want to get my toadying to them in first, maybe they will take pity on my limited and fragile humanity.
I want to get my toadying to them in first, maybe they will take pity on my limited and fragile humanity.
I welcome the singularity but don't follow the idea religiously as some do on the Singularity Network.
Personally I think it is more worth our while to discover ourselves spiritually first before thinking of creating AI which is as intelligent as ourselves.
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03 Mar 2011, 11:47 pm
don't worry, MS will come up with an OS for it that will bring it to a crawl...
04 Mar 2011, 1:09 am
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _Computers
This article from 2009 said it should be here by 2018.
Looks like it's been pushed back a bit since then. 
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