Obama establishes supercomputing initiative
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029080
Verge : On Wednesday, President Obama signed an executive order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). The overall goal of the initiative will be to coordinate the US’s efforts in high-power computing across a range of fields including medicine, nuclear research, weather forecasting, and aerospace. The most specific goal involves building an exascale computer by 2025. Such a computer would be 100 times as powerful as the two most advanced computers currently under development in the US—Summit and Sierra—which will both reach 100 petaflops when they are completed in 2017. Reaching the exascale level will require either massive amounts of power to supply the computer with energy or significant architecture breakthroughs to allow more efficient energy use.
