"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two**, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research"
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May 21, 2012
May 16, 2012
"I think we will never reach zettaflops, at least not by doing discrete floating point operations. We are reaching the anvil of the technology S-curve and will be approaching an asymptote of single program performance due to a combination of factors including atomic granularity at nanoscale."
— Quote by Dr. Thomas Sterling is a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, a Faculty Associate at California Institute of Technology, a CSRI Fellow for Sandia National Laboraties, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Quote found at HPCwire: Thomas Sterling: ‘I Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops’
November 16, 2011
"Exascale computing has the potential to address a class of highly complex workloads that have been beyond traditional reach, not just due to their sheer size, but because of their inherent uncertainties and unpredictability – areas such as hurricane prediction and climate modeling. Blue Gene/Q represents the next step in this HPC evolution."
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Quote found in an IBM press release “IBM Announces Supercomputer to Propel Sciences Forward”
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