"What if you could perform supercomputing calculations 
    in real-time, on your smartphone, in any location?"

   "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
    (MIT), collaborating with staff at the Texas Advanced 
    Computing Center (TACC), have created an application 
    that does just that."

TACC.UTexas.edu::Supercomputing: There's an App for That

[19 August 2010, top]

   "In Year 1, the new CMRS provides a 5x increase in computational 
    capability over NOAA's current largest system. In the second year, 
    the capacity quadruples to more than 1.1 petaflops. This is a 
    huge resource, delivered in step with the scientific community's 
    needs."

HPCwire.com::NOAA-ORNL Climate Research Collaboration Sets Lofty Goals for New Supercomputer

[28 July 2010, top]

   "The brains of living creatures are capable of phenomenal 
    processing power and yet have almost none of the features 
    of the computers we build today. Don't you find this odd?"

mattaw.blogspot.com::The future of computing? The SpiNNaker million processor computer

[02 July 2010, top]

NetworkWorld.com::Beyond the petaflop: DARPA wants quintillion-speed computers

[23 June 2010, top]

   "An 'exascale' supercomputer capable of a million trillion calculations 
    per second - dramatically increasing our ability to understand the 
    world around us through simulation and slashing the time needed to 
    design complex products such as therapeutics, advanced materials, 
    and highly-efficient autos and aircraft."

ISGTW.org::Opinion - Challenges to exascale computing (by Irving Wladawsky-Berger)

[19 April 2010, top]

   "Cray said its supercomputers will be used to support basic and 
    applied research, and product development and evaluation. These 
    systems will help to protect the military through the development 
    of new materials, fuels, armor and weapons systems, and assist 
    long-term weather predictions to plan humanitarian and military 
    operations throughout the world."

Upon receiving this contract, Cray will have "supercomputing systems at five of the six DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers in the U.S."

On 23 February 2010, prior to the announcement, CRAY shares closed at $5.17 per share.

[24 February 2010, top]

In a nutshell, computing is being used to better "understand wildfire behavior and predicting its spread."

   "Even on supercomputers, you're really limited," Cunningham said. 
   "To have your smallest scale at 1 meter and your biggest scale at 
    let's say 10, or 100, kilometers you just can't do it based on 
    the computational power available." -- Phil Cunnigham is a 
    "former Florida State University associate professor of 
     meteorology who has just moved to LANL (Los Alamos National
     Laboratory [home the Roadrunner supercomputer]).

Miller-McCune.com::Smokey Bear Now Studies Computer Science

[09 February 2010, top]

Tokyo, Japan-based Institute of Statistical Mathematics will use supercomputing to "perform statistical data analysis, statistical modeling, mathematical analysis and statistical interference."

In Germany, the University of Duisburg-Essen will use supercomputing to "support its scientific work in chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering. Research will include the development of parallel algorithms, large-scale computations of electronic structure and molecular dynamics of nano materials, as well as structural mechanics and biomechanics studies."

   "The simulations that will be performed on our new Cray 
    supercomputer will contribute significantly to the atomistic 
    understanding of structure and reactivity in the nano sciences, 
    energy technology and material sciences, as well as to insight 
    into structural and biomechanical problems." 
    -- Prof. Dr. Eckhart Spohr at University of Duisburg-Essen 

I liked encountering the word atomistic.

[09 February 2010, top]

   "Combining and analyzing health care data in real time could 
    save as much as $50 billion a year by eliminating waste and 
    preventing fraud in government-run health care programs, and 
    also could improve the quality of medical care, said Andrew 
    Loebl, a senior researcher in the lab's Computational Science 
    and Engineering Division."

Right now the roadmap is for exa-scale computing by 2018. Could it happen sooner? I thank maybe.

GCN.com::Can the world's fastest supercomputer combat health care waste?

[16 January 2010, top]

   #in2020 Exaflops computing (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 
   arithmetic calculations per second).

A few months ago the interval 2018-2020 was used as a prediction as to when we would have exa-scale computing; however, now 2018 seems to be the target year.

[03 January 2010, top]

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