Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers 185
coondoggie writes "Not known for taking the demure route, researchers at DARPA this week announced a program aimed at building computers that exceed current peta-scale computers to achieve the mind-altering speed of one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. Dubbed extreme scale computing, such machines are needed, DARPA says, to 'meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher energy efficiency, ease of programmability, system dependability, and security.'"
Peta-flops (Score:2, Funny)
I'm glad DARPA is finally making a move to make their computing more animal friendly.
Translation (Score:5, Funny)
I want to run Crysis 2 in software rendering mode
Re:how sweet and innocent of them! (Score:5, Funny)
FTFY
For security? (Score:4, Funny)
Norton bogs my computer down too but that is just crazy :)
Re:Exaflops (Score:3, Funny)
Re:how sweet and innocent of them! (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but DOS attacks are utterly outdated. Today you use Windows for your attacks.
SCNR
Re:Exaflops (Score:3, Funny)
Just like people complaining how in Star Wars, Han Solo said he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs...yes, we know that parsecs are a measure of distance, Solo was talking about being able to complete the race using a shorter route than the standard 18 parsecs, which is why a measure of distance makes sense.
Source [wikia.com].
Disclaimer: some people may shout "retcon" at this explanation, but at this point singling out each instance retconning in the Star Wars universe is a wasted effort.
Re:Exaflops (Score:3, Funny)
Stop using antiquated units! The current unit in fashion is Vuvuzelaflops.
yeah, right. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Imagine (Score:1, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of these imagines you.
Re:Make sense, dammit (Score:3, Funny)