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Japan Planning Exascale Computer For 2020
Nerval's Lobster writes "Japan has thrown its hat into the ring for exascale computing, reported the country's newspapers. The goal: achieve one exaFLOPS of performance by 2020. Japan's finance ministry has agreed to begin work next fiscal year on a supercomputer with a performance capability 100 times that of the K computer, a 10-petaFLOPS computer that debuted as the most powerful supercomputer in the world in 2011. The midterm report for the new supercomputer was concluded Thursday, the Asahi Shimbun business daily reported. The Japan Times was slightly more conservative, reporting that the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry will seek funding to design the new machine in its fiscal 2014 budget request — implying that the project has not necessarily been approved. The science ministry is hoping to keep the cost of the new supercomputer below the ¥110 billion mark ($1.08 billion) that was required to develop the K computer, the paper reported. (Slashdot couldn't find any evidence that the project had been approved on the ministry Webpage, although the K computer was mentioned several times in a discussion of public-private partnerships.)"
...for Windows 9.
I wonder how powerful is the most powerful computer. There is the TOP500 list but maybe there is unpublished computer in private industry or secret agency.
we could build several of these for the price of a single B2 bomber.
wish we would spend our money on something like this instead.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
So how many flops does a human brain has ?
I totally concur with japan, i guess the emperor was frustrated at the performance of photoshop CS6. That's the type of computers Adobe makes multimedia editing software for
Both Cray and IBM are likely to field at least one exaflop system each in the 2018 time frame. US Department of Energy was on track to fund them at their national laboratories (at a "defense" lab like ORNL and a "science" lab like ANL). But, the sequester seems to be a permanent fixture on the landscape now, and there is evidence that DoE will have to stretch out the schedule as a result.
Meanwhile, the Bitcoin network has already broken the equivalent of the exaFLOP barrier. Of course you can't coordinate this computing power in the same way, but it's interesting to note.
Moores law predicts 1000x per 15 years.
The main challenge of exascale computing is energy efficiency. It's going to cost 100 million dollars per year in electricity alone.
Things we have now, like CD's, rocket ships, the internet, tablet computers, televideo started off as science fiction and Japan is a M A S S I V E exporter of sci-fi, from anime to manga to the Haikasoru sci-fi book series--so it makes sense they build the odd super computer.
"SO we bide our time, waiting for a purer kick to bloom and the future is still bleak, uncertain and beautiful" -GSYBE
Power consumption and mean time between failure are the current major challenges. What good would a exa-scale supercomputer be, if you couldn not run a full-system job on it for even one hour?
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Are there enough heavy-computing tasks that will keep this computer occupied? Is there a shortage of computing power currently?
this machine will carry out ecological research like their Earth supercomputer. Just like whaling is carried out for "scientific research"
I suppose the Japanese will be using this proposed new behemoth to model their future planning for new nuclear power pla......oh wait...