Exascale Computer
An Exascale Computer is a computer that can perform between 1 and 500 exa-FLOPS.
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- See: Gigabytes-per-Second, Computer System, Quintillion, Supercomputing, Human Brain, Human Brain Project, Artificial Brain.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exascale_computing Retrieved:2015-2-20.
- Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS, or a billion billion calculations per second. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation in 2008. (One exaflops is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion, 1018, floating point operations per second.) At a supercomputing conference in 2009, Computerworld projected exascale implementation by 2018.
Exascale computing would be considered as a significant achievement in computer engineering, for it is believed to be the order of processing power of the human brain at neural level (functional might be lower). It is for instance the target power of the Human Brain Project.
- Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS, or a billion billion calculations per second. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation in 2008. (One exaflops is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion, 1018, floating point operations per second.) At a supercomputing conference in 2009, Computerworld projected exascale implementation by 2018.
2013
- http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
- QUOTE: … If peta-scale computers like the K computer are capable of representing 1% of the network of a human brain today, then we know that simulating the whole brain at the level of the individual nerve cell and its synapses will be possible with exa-scale computers hopefully available within the next decade,” explains Diesmann …