US government awards millions to HPE, Intel, and others in hopes they’ll build next-gen supercomputers

To try and edge the United States ahead of other countries in the arms race of building supercomputers, the Department of Energy today awarded a total of $258 million in funding to #HPE, #Cray, #AMD, #Intel, #IBM, and #Nvidia. The money will be put toward developing #exascale computers, which are capable of a billion billion calculations per second.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/15/15810826/u-s-digital-arms-race-supercomputers-millions-dollars-grant