Posted on 12/05/2014 11:28:38 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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The U.S. intelligence community has launched a multi-year research project to develop a superconducting computer, awarding its first contracts to three major technology companies.
IBM, Raytheon BBN and Northrop Grumman won the contracts, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity said Wednesday, without disclosing financial details.
If it works, the Cryogenic Computer Complexity (C3) program could lead to a new generation of superconducting supercomputers.
"The energy demands of today's high-performance computers have become a critical challenge for the Intelligence Community that the C3 program aims to address," IARPA said in a statement. Such computers use massive amounts of energy.
Competition from Europe, Japan and China, which has the world's fastest computer, is spurring U.S. efforts to develop the next generation of superconducting supercomputers, called exascale.
Well, good, maybe they can monitor my every crap then.
fyi
What, the “Playstation 3” supercomputer failed?
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/rome_labs_supercomputer_is_mad.html
The PS4 has an upgrade coming.
Odds are that the IBM Dr Watson cognitive computing chip shows up in this!
Cryogenic Computer Complexity Performance Oriented?
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Sony screwed PS3 users of other operating systems some years ago in an “update”.
I remember that. I was dreaming they would realize what kind of market they could make for themselves, but blind squirrels do not see all the nuts they pass when focused on what is in their hands.
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