Supercomputing's Exaflop Target.

The article discusses the challenges of energy consumption and parallelism to the progress of supercomputers. The author offers brief information on the rankings of several of the world's supercomputers, such as Japan's K computer, China's Tianhe-1A computer, and the U.S.'s Jaguar computer, noting t...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 8; pp. 16 - 19
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2011
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