Sandia Wants To Build Exaflop Computer

Dan100 brings us an announcement that Sandia and Oak Ridge National Laboratories are setting their sights on an exaflop supercomputer. Researchers from the two laboratories jointly launched the Institute for Advanced Architectures to facilitate development. One of the problems they hope to solve is how to provide each core of each processor with enough data so that cycles aren't going to waste. "The idea behind the institute — under consideration for a year and a half prior to its opening — is 'to close critical gaps between theoretical peak performance and actual performance on current supercomputers,' says Sandia project lead Sudip Dosanjh. 'We believe this can be done by developing novel and innovative computer architectures.' The institute is funded in FY08 by congressional mandate at $7.4 million."

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Trickle Down Supercomputing

[Doc Ruby]

As long as they keep making new peripheral buses and networks that are the fastest in the world to keep up with the supercomputing speeds, that we can then buy to use with our PCs, then it's a great investment.

But since the American people will have bought the new tech for the world, it should be released into the public domain, after maybe 5 years patent licensed to only American corporations (who cannot sublicense it abroad). That's what investments in American tech should be like. Not just subsidies to private corporations, however Chinese they might be.

Great...

[owlnation]

... the first computer with enough specs to able to run Vista! (just)

I bet VISTA will bring it to its KNEES

[Ralph Spoilsport]

petaflop exaflop floppity flop flop flop - whatever - install Vista and watch it puke blood and die...

obSlashdot: but will it run linux?

RS