U.S. military will change the face of computing, one exaflop at a time

Fast Company

What could you do with an exaflop computer -- one that could perform a quintillion calculations a second? Cure cancer? Map out the entire future history of climate change? Find God? We may be about to find out. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the agency that brought us the Internet, has awarded the first grants to firms it wants to build exaflop computers.

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