_______How else could NSA keep up_with new spy data._______________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Eugene Coyle [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 1:19 PM To: Pen-l Pen-L; LBO Subject: [Pen-l] Planning for technology breakthrough
The beginning and then the end of a story about a new Obama technology initiative seems like the poster child for misconception. > U.S. Sets Goal for Faster Supercomputers. Much, Much Faster. > President Obama has announced an ambitious plan to build the world’s fastest > computer, a machine capable of speeds far beyond technology’s current reach, > in a bid to enlarge the frontiers of fields including medicine, biology and > astronomy. > > By 2025, the government will aim to create a machine capable of performing a > quintillion operations a second, or one exaflop, roughly 30 times faster than > today’s fastest computer. ---- ---- ---- > The United States initiative will coordinate efforts across multiple federal > agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National > Institutes of Health, the Department of Homeland Security and the National > Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the White House said. What could go wrong? full NYTimes story at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/technology/us-sets-goal-for-faster-supercomputers-much-much-faster.html?emc=edit_tu_20150731&nl=technology&nlid=9633259&_r=0 Gene _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
