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SuperComputing: Racing Against China to Build an Exaflop Speed Computer
The Department of Energy has awarded six US computer companies $258 million to research the development of a large super-fast computing system. The grants support research in the areas of hardware, software and application development. The six companies are: AMD, Cray, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA.
The money has been set aside as part of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project. It is to be used over the next three years in research. The six companies, to be eligible, need also to fund at least 40 percent of the project, bringing the total amount of research dollars spent to $430 million. The money is one of the few areas of government spending on science research that escaped being cut from the budget by the Trump administration.
The goal of the project is build the fastest computer ever, one capable of functioning at exaflop speed or 1018 floating point operations per second. The United States in running in competition with China in creating the fastest machine. Currently China claims the two fastest computers in the world and say they are targeting an exaflop-calibre computer by the end of 2020, one year before the target date of the US project.
