Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Japan Promises Exascale Supercomputer in 2020

Several countries have set 2020 as the target year to launch an exascale supercomputer. And one of those countries engaged in the heated race just got one step closer.

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology recently tapped RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) to develop a new exascale supercomputer by 2020 thereby tasking the research institution with keeping the country “at the leading edge of computing science and technology,” according to an announcement.

(Read my complete article at Go Parallel)

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