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Obama sets $126M for next-gen supercomputing
'Exascale' arrives for first time in federal budget
Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has included funding in his 2012 budget proposal for development of the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system.
The money is going to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which has led in developing the world's fastest computers.
If Congress approves Obama's request, DOE will get $126 million for exascale development, with about $91 million for the DOE's Office of Science and $36 million of it for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
In seeking this funding, the Obama administration made a little history. A DOE spokesman said it marked the first time that the budget explicitly references "exascale." The DOE budget had budgeted just over $24 million in 2011, but this was in context of "extreme scale" computing.
Exascale systems are 1,000 times more powerful than the Tianhe-1A, the Chinese supercomputer that was recently ranked as the world's fastest
Obama sets $126M for next-gen supercomputing
'Exascale' arrives for first time in federal budget
Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has included funding in his 2012 budget proposal for development of the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system.
The money is going to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which has led in developing the world's fastest computers.
If Congress approves Obama's request, DOE will get $126 million for exascale development, with about $91 million for the DOE's Office of Science and $36 million of it for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
In seeking this funding, the Obama administration made a little history. A DOE spokesman said it marked the first time that the budget explicitly references "exascale." The DOE budget had budgeted just over $24 million in 2011, but this was in context of "extreme scale" computing.
Exascale systems are 1,000 times more powerful than the Tianhe-1A, the Chinese supercomputer that was recently ranked as the world's fastest