The US has issued $258m in research contracts to develop an Exascale supercomputer

[WYP]

The US has issued $258m in research contracts to develop an Exascale supercomputer.



Read more on the United States' Exascale computing plans.

Special Thanks to NeverBackDown for bringing this news to our attention.

 

[Tripp]

building SKYNET step 1 lol, seriously though this is exciting stuff to see

 

[NeverBackDown]

I don't think Skynet is even remotely related to this tbh

 

[Dawelio]

I don't think Skynet is even remotely related to this tbh

I agree.

 

[Tripp]

I wasn't being serious ffs hahahah

 

[NeverBackDown]

I wasn't being serious ffs hahahah

I know but in the other thread people kept bringing it up, so i mentioned it here

 

[Tripp]

I know but in the other thread people kept bringing it up, so i mentioned it here

Ah ok I guess, must of missed the other thread

 

[evilcorp]

A quintillion calculations a second.. Thats incredible. It could crack most types of encryption in a second.

That kind of computing power is almost scary. Imagine what a government could do with that kind of power.

 

[NeverBackDown]

A quintillion calculations a second.. Thats incredible. It could crack most types of encryption in a second.

That kind of computing power is almost scary. Imagine what a government could do with that kind of power.

That would be a waste of resources to go after basic encryptions that a much cheaper super computer could do nearly as fast. It would be more for hiding stuff behind a computer capable of making it impossible to crack through. Basically government vs government kinda stuff. On the other side, researching and creating similar lifelike models would also benefit a government.