Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers

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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[Rik Sweeney]

I want to run Crysis 2 in software rendering mode

Re:how sweet and innocent of them!

[Yetihehe]

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

FTFY