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Foil 15 III. Key drivers: The Need for PetaFLOPS Computing

From PetaFlop(JNAC) Overview Presentations -- Results of Studies and Next Steps Sep 19,96 NSTC Committee Presentation -- Sept 19,1996. by Paul Smith DoE
1 Applications that require petaFLOPS can already be identified
  • (DOE) Nuclear weapons stewardship
  • (NSA) Cryptology and digital signal processing
  • (NASA and NSF) Satellite data assimilation and climate modeling
2 The need for ever greater computing power will remain.
3 PetaFLOPS systems are right step for the next decade
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