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We Have Reached the Limits of Computing Power, Says Supercomputer Expert.

Agent-x - May 10 2012, 4:35 PM

According to Big Think-com, We Have Reached the Limits of Computing Power, Says Supercomputer Expert.

Due to some rather strict physical constraints, the kind that come when working with atoms, we have nearly reached the limits of computing power, says High Performance Computing expert Thomas Sterling.

The last major computing milestone was achieved in 2008 when the Los Alamos' Roadrunner supercomputer reached petascale computing, or a quadrillion (10^15) floating point operations per second.

But Sterling says we are unlikely to achieve Exascale computing (10^18 FLOPS) "without ripping apart our existing ways of building supercomputers, root and branch."
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