Thursday, September 4, 2008

Computing Update

Petascale computer gets the green light:


This shows you the Law of Accelerating Returns in action:

"Specifically, NASA Ames, Intel and SGI will work together on a project called Pleiades to develop a system with a capacity of one Petaflops peak performance by 2009 and a system with a peak performance of 10 Petaflops by 2012."

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