BBC News reports on a new DARPA initiative to multiply the U.S. military’s supercomputing power by a factor of 1,000 with exascale computers:
“Darpa said its research project was needed to help analyse the tidal wave of data that military systems and sensors are expected to produce.
The research project, dubbed the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program, would attempt to create hardware that ‘overcomes the limitations of current evolutionary approach’.
That approach is characterised by Moore’s Law which says the number of transistors that can fit on a given piece of silicon will double every 18-24 months.”
