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The beginning and then the end of a story about a new Obama technology initiative seems like the poster child for misconception.
> U.S. Sets Goal for Faster Supercomputers. Much, Much Faster.
> President Obama has announced an ambitious plan to build the world’s fastest computer, a machine capable of speeds far beyond technology’s current reach, in a bid to enlarge the frontiers of fields including medicine, biology and astronomy.
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> By 2025, the government will aim to create a machine capable of performing a quintillion operations a second, or one exaflop, roughly 30 times faster than today’s fastest computer.
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> The United States initiative will coordinate efforts across multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the White House said.
What could go wrong?
full NYTimes story at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/technology/us-sets-goal-for-faster-supercomputers-much-much-faster.html?emc=edit_tu_20150731&nl=technology&nlid=9633259&_r=0
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