Petaflop machines the way of the future
Two technologies currently under research by IBM may hold the key to being able to process and store the Exabyte (one thousand million Gb) of data expected to flow per day from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project.
The machine will be based on Fujitsu's eight-core Sparc64 processor
Fujitsu aims to deliver by early 2011 a 10-petaflop supercomputer, which would be almost 10 times more powerful than today's fastest system.
China hopes to develop a petaflop-class supercomputer based on its Godson processor by 2010, an engineer said Tuesday.
China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's senior engineers said on Tuesday.
