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Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lotta-flops dept.

coondoggie writes "Not known for taking the demure route, researchers at DARPA this week announced a program aimed at building computers that exceed current peta-scale computers to achieve the mind-altering speed of one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. Dubbed extreme scale computing, such machines are needed, DARPA says, to 'meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher energy efficiency, ease of programmability, system dependability, and security.'"

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  1. Peta-flops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm glad DARPA is finally making a move to make their computing more animal friendly.

  2. Translation by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want to run Crysis 2 in software rendering mode

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  3. Re:how sweet and innocent of them! by Yetihehe · · Score: 4, Funny

    but what is "cyber warfare" if not Cold War 2.0?

    FTFY

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  4. For security? by LinuxInDallas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Norton bogs my computer down too but that is just crazy :)

  5. Re:Exaflops by Chowderbags · · Score: 2, Funny

    FLOPS is not an SI unit.

  6. Re:how sweet and innocent of them! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, but DOS attacks are utterly outdated. Today you use Windows for your attacks.

    SCNR

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  7. Re:Exaflops by Pojut · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like people complaining how in Star Wars, Han Solo said he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs...yes, we know that parsecs are a measure of distance, Solo was talking about being able to complete the race using a shorter route than the standard 18 parsecs, which is why a measure of distance makes sense.

    Source.

    Disclaimer: some people may shout "retcon" at this explanation, but at this point singling out each instance retconning in the Star Wars universe is a wasted effort.

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  8. Re:Exaflops by hoggoth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop using antiquated units! The current unit in fashion is Vuvuzelaflops.

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  9. yeah, right. by Major+Downtime · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pfff, old news. It will produce 42 as final output, and then we'll have it build another machine capable of performing one peta-quazillion calculations per second.

  10. Re:Imagine by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of these imagines you.

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  11. Re:Make sense, dammit by evilbessie · · Score: 2, Funny

    See the moon there, DARPA want that on a stick, with sugar and a cherry on top if you please.