In the next 2-3 years, all three Department of Energy (DOE) centers will be seeking to deploy their first 100-plus petaflop systems. The collaboration enables the labs to combine experience and buying power. The three-way partnership includes about 100 experts, who will be participating in the acquisition process. The systems are expected to carry a hefty price tag of about $125 million, which will buy about 100-200 petaflops of computing power.
DOE’s mission to push the frontiers of science and technology will require extreme-scale computing with machines that are 500 to 1,000 times more capable than today’s computers, albeit with a similar size and power footprint.
The DOE won’t be able to meet its goals using a business-as-usual evolutionary approach, Harrod noted as part of his Exascale Update, “rather it will require major novel advances in computing technology: exascale computing.”
Japan intends to deliver an exascale supercomputer in six years [before 2020]. The firm completion date makes Japan novel among the nations in the race to build exascale systems.
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