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Foil 24 III. Key drivers: The Need for PetaFLOPS Computing

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
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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