The US announced plans to build two new
supercomputers by 2017 and unveiled a $325 million investment
program to work on supercomputers named "Summit" and
"Sierra" respectively.
"High-performance computing is an
essential component of the science and technology portfolio required to
maintain US competitiveness and ensure our economic and national
security," US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said in the statement.
The statement revealed that Sierra would
be at least seven times as powerful as Sequoia, currently the
world's third-fastest supercomputer which clocked a performance score of 17.17
quadrillion operations per second.
Summit is expected to be at
least five times more powerful than US-made Titan, the world's second-fastest
with a performance of 17.59 quadrillion operations per second.
In the list of the world's top 500
supercomputers, US is home to the most with 233.
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