"We filled the vacancy the next day"
US military looks to blaze computing trail
The US military is planning to develop computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second.
Grants have already been awarded to firms from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to build the so-called exascale computers.
Existing computers will pale in comparison with the power of the ones being planned, with their relatively meagre 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
Darpa is forecasting that the first prototypes of the next-gen devices will be up and running by 2018.
It is hoped that the more powerful computers will be able to process, store and interpret data with far more speed and accuracy than any existing machines.
The ultimate goal of the project is to "re-invent computing," a statement released by Darpa revealed.
Scientists at Princeton University, US, recently hailed the discovery of a new type of electron as having potentially radical consequences for IT.
Posted by Simon Russell
Grants have already been awarded to firms from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to build the so-called exascale computers.
Existing computers will pale in comparison with the power of the ones being planned, with their relatively meagre 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
Darpa is forecasting that the first prototypes of the next-gen devices will be up and running by 2018.
It is hoped that the more powerful computers will be able to process, store and interpret data with far more speed and accuracy than any existing machines.
The ultimate goal of the project is to "re-invent computing," a statement released by Darpa revealed.
Scientists at Princeton University, US, recently hailed the discovery of a new type of electron as having potentially radical consequences for IT.
Posted by Simon Russell