• DocumentCode
    84278
  • Title

    Giving supercomputers a second wind [News]

  • Author

    Boyd, John

  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Jun-15
  • Firstpage
    20
  • Lastpage
    20
  • Abstract
    The speed of high-performance computing has soared from around 100 gigaflops in 1993 to over 50 petaflops today and is on course to hit the longsought exascale (1018 floating- point operations per second) mark in the 2020s. Yet this remarkable supercomputing progress can be something of a super nightmare for the institutes and government agencies asked to invest the hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars that leading systems can cost.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7115550
  • Filename
    7115550