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."

Quote found in an IBM press release  “IBM Announces Supercomputer to Propel Sciences Forward”

Blue Gene/Q

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