Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer

Jason Koebler writes: President Obama has signed an executive order authorizing a new supercomputing research initiative with the goal of creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised. The National Strategic Computing Initiative, or NSCI, will attempt to build the first ever exascale computer, 30 times faster than today's fastest supercomputer. Motherboard reports: "The initiative will primarily be a partnership between the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Science Foundation, which will be designing supercomputers primarily for use by NASA, the FBI, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Homeland Security, and NOAA. Each of those agencies will be allowed to provide input during the early stages of the development of these new computers."

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In 30 years, this is our next cell phone.

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

But can it run Crysis?

Re:In 30 years, this is our next cell phone.

[Gravis Zero]

But can it play Crysis?

ftfy. :)

Re:Dictator dictating is a Dictator

[Anonymous Coward]

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But...

[Anonymous Coward]

Will it blend?

Exascale? We don't need that.

[the_humeister]

640 petaflops ought to be enough for anybody.

Fix the economy

[ChadSmith4920]

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Re:Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux

[lucm]

Don't worry, they are planning to use Oracle Linux. They are currently using the 2nd most powerful computer in the world to calculate how much the license will cost.