Exa-FLOPS

AKA: Quintillion FLOPS.
Context:
- It can be attained by an Exa-Scale Computer.
- …
Example(s):
- 1 exaFLOPS.
- 0.001 exaFLOPS (1 petaFLOPS).
- 1000 exaFLOPS (1 zettaFLOPS).
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- Tera-FLOPS.
- Peta-FLOPS.
- Zetta-FLOPS.
- Yotta-FLOPS.
See: Exa-Bytes per Second, Top-500 Supercomputers.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Future_developments Retrieved:2015-2-20.
- In 2008, James Bamford's book The Shadow Factory reported that NSA told the Pentagon it would need an exaflop computer by 2018.^[1]
  Given the current speed of progress, supercomputers are projected to reach 1 exaFLOPS (EFLOPS) in 2019.^[2] Cray, Inc. announced in December 2009 a plan to build a 1 EFLOPS supercomputer before 2020.^[3] Erik P. DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories theorizes that a zettaFLOPS (ZFLOPS) computer is required to accomplish full weather modeling of two week time span.^[4] Such systems might be built around 2030.

Kogge, Peter. (2011). “The Tops in Flops.” In: Spectrum, IEEE 48, no. 2. doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2011.5693074
- ABSTRACT: Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. Modern supercomputers are based on groups of tightly interconnected microprocessors. In recent years, supercomputers have shaped our daily lives more directly.

(Hemmert, 2010) ⇒ Scott Hemmert. (2010). “Green hpc: From nice to necessity.” In: Computing in Science and Engineering 12, no. 6.

(Markram, 2010) ⇒ Henry Markram. (2006). “The Blue Brain Project.” In: Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7(2).