The world's fastest supercomputer will come back to the U.S. if the Department of Energy (DoE) has anything to do with it. DoE is building three new supercomputers for out national labs that together will exceed 5 petaflops: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog for EE Times.
Oak Ridge National Labs, Argonne National Labs and Lawrence Livermore National Labs will install three new supercomputers with a combined speed of 400 petaflops by 2017.
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