Supercomputing Closer to Exascale
We live henceforth in a data-driven age where unstructured, tag data and
structured data from multiple sources ramp up.
This means inter alia that, we need streamlined and holistic technologies
paradigms, applications and architectures that can deal with this momentum. We
need to anticipate the rise of new high performance computing architectures.
IBM and
GENCI (high performance computing agency in France), collaborate henceforth
when it comes to speed up the path to exascale computing: ‘the ability of a
computing system to perform at least one exaflop, or a billion billion
calculations, in one second’.
For those who unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, currently the
fastest systems in the world perform between ten and 33 petaflops, or ten to 33
million billion calculations per second.
