The White house released a statement where they indicated the US should have an exaFLOP supercomputer in the next decade (the 2020s or it could mean by 2025).
The US is currently on track to get to an exaFLOP supercomputer by 2023.
The National Strategic Computer Initiative (NSCI), was signed by President Barack Obama in July 2015. It is an effort to build the world's first supercomputer with an exaflop of computational power.
President Obama's NSCI is an extension to existing plans announced back in November to create two pre-exascale systems being built by the Department of Energy. These two projects are already underway, and the systems being built are expected to deliver between 100-300 petaflops each. The Summit and Sierra supercomputers are expected to be completed sometime in 2017-2018.
There was also the 180 petaFLOP Aurora supercomputer targeted for 2018
China's current supercomputer is the Tianhe 2, is capable of peak 54.9 petaflops of computational power.
China is upgrading the Tianhe 2 to the Tianhe 2A in 2016 to get to 100 petaFLOPS.
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The US is currently on track to get to an exaFLOP supercomputer by 2023.
The National Strategic Computer Initiative (NSCI), was signed by President Barack Obama in July 2015. It is an effort to build the world's first supercomputer with an exaflop of computational power.
President Obama's NSCI is an extension to existing plans announced back in November to create two pre-exascale systems being built by the Department of Energy. These two projects are already underway, and the systems being built are expected to deliver between 100-300 petaflops each. The Summit and Sierra supercomputers are expected to be completed sometime in 2017-2018.
There was also the 180 petaFLOP Aurora supercomputer targeted for 2018
China's current supercomputer is the Tianhe 2, is capable of peak 54.9 petaflops of computational power.
China is upgrading the Tianhe 2 to the Tianhe 2A in 2016 to get to 100 petaFLOPS.
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