The US government has invested a total of $ 258 million in a major step in the hope of building the world's most powerful supercomputers, competing with China and Japan, which in turn have the most powerful supercomputers and are seeking to build stronger computers in the coming years.
According to a report on the Exascale Computing Project, the US Department of Energy has awarded AMD, Cray, HP, IBM, Intel and Nvidia $ 258 million in funding over a three-year period to build the required computing capacity.
The six companies will not depend solely on US government funds, which will cover 40 percent of the total costs, which could amount to at least $ 430 million.
The supercomputer will be able to do 1 billion calculations per second and is expected to have the same processing power as the human brain at the nervous level.
It is expected that the computer will change the way research is carried out, as well as the possibility of helping him discover the elusive remedies of incurable diseases, as well as his potential to help uncover the mysteries of the universe.
The project aims at setting up at least one such system by 2021, although the companies concerned may have to work faster to beat China, which promises to build another huge computing machine by 2020.
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