Supercomputing is explained using flop or floating points of operation per second. 1-exaflop is capable of performing 1 million trillion flops and we already have systems that can do this. However this is not enough for Erik DeBenedictis. The computer engineer at Sandia National Laboratories wants to push the limit and create a 10 exaflop or greater in a super computer. A feat such as that will require major changes in computing technologies and computer architectures.
DeBenedictis has been pursing this endeavor with the assistance of IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative and International Technology Roadmap. Three different approaches to this are titles "Breaking Moore's Law" presented at International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. These approaches are the millivolt switch, 3-D integration, and specialized architecture. When this technology is fully developed it has the potential to revolutionize the world of supercomputing. The article continues with an interview between IEEE Spectrum and DeBenedictis discussing in further detail supercomputing and DeBenedictis future in this endeavor. Please see the source at bottom for reference to it. ~Alex Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/how-supercomputing-can-survive-beyond-moores-law
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