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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. Re:how sweet and innocent of them! by BobMcD · · Score: 0, Troll

    Amen. They could have saved a lot of keystrokes...

    Dubbed extreme scale computing, such machines are needed, DARPA says, to crack into the gmail accounts of millions of Americans and discern how to keep the wool firmly over their eyes.

  2. America is bankrupt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and yet we are still pissing away taxpayer dollars on evil techonology that will give the military more power over common man.

    I hope somebody blows up their fagot ass computer.