Saturday, July 14, 2012

Nvidia and Intel join AMD in Department of Energy's FastForward exascale computing project

Nvidia and Intel join AMD in Department of Energy's FastForward exascale computing project: Intel Sandy Bridge Chips






Nvidia has announced that it as secured a $12.4 million contract over the next two years from the US Department of Energy. In its announcement, the company focuses on the need for a "hetereogeneous" model of super computing, which is only fitting given that AMD, Intel, and Whamcloud will also be part of the FastForward DOE program. The purpose is to research exascale computing and will focus on energy efficiency as it tried to achieve the goal of a system that's much faster than current super computers, as Nvidia puts it:
Exascale systems will perform a quintillion floating point calculations per second (that’s a billion billion), making them 1,000 times faster than a one petaflop supercomputer. The world’s fastest computer today is...
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