DoE Gets Funds to Develop 1st-Ever Exascale Supercomputer
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The Energy Department is getting some financial muscle to help it in the race to build the world’s first exascale supercomputer, which could make large-scale simulations of climate change.
DoE’s Argonne National Laboratory stood up the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute in 2010 to focus on developing a computer it says will be 1,000 times more powerful than the Tianhe-1A — a supercomputer in China that was named the fastest in the world in 2010.
Exascale computers are able to conduct a quintillion, or one million trillion calculations per second.
In a set of spending bills known as an omnibus package, Congress has given the department $126 million on exascale development.
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