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

    I want to run Crysis 2 in software rendering mode

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

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

  4. 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    Sorry, but DOS attacks are utterly outdated.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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