Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency HPCS Looking for petaFLOP Performance
Posted in KurzweilAI.net, Nov. 29, 2006…remember DARPA? That whole Interwebs thingy?
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a half
million billion (thanks Al for correction) dollars in funding for development by 2010 of supercomputers capable of two petaFLOPS sustained performance, more powerful than the fastest supercomputer existing today, and scalable to greater than four petaFLOPS.The ultimate goal of the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems program (HPCS) program is to create a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems that will be available for national security and industrial users.
Yes they did says PetaFLOPS. FLOPS is short for Floating Point Operations Per Second.
PFLOPS, 10^15 FLOPS. To put it in perspective as of right now, I think, the fastest computer in the world is the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer, measuring a peak of 280.6 TFLOPS. Note the “T” we are still in tera era.
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Wayne,
You’re off by a factor of 1000: DARPA has assigned a total of $494 MILLION; i.e. a half-BILLION, not a half-MILLION.
(cp http://www.google.com/search?q=missing millions site:ntk.net)
Al
Thanks AL- it did seem awfully cheap for all of those FLOPS in the article- ill make a correction! Thanks for taking the time.
regards,
Wayne