By: TOP500 Team

After two years of pessimism, the US Supercomputing Conference, SC14, held this year in New Orleans in late November, was suffused with confidence about the future. The change of mood was triggered by the announcement, on the Friday before the event opened, that the US Government was to spend $325m on two new supercomputers, and a further $100m on technology development, to put the USA back on the road to exascale computing.

The significance of the announcement goes far beyond the specialism of high-performance computing (HPC) into enterprise computing, where the technologies being developed for HPC could transform this much wider and financially more important sector of the economy, according to the members of the winning partnership of IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox. ‘There are game-changing elements to what we are doing,’ Ken King, general manger of OpenPower Alliances at IBM, told Scientific Computing World.

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