Obama Aims for Exascale

February 18, 2011 | President Obama has included supercomputing in his 2012 budget proposal. If the budget is approved, the Department of Energy will get $126 million for development of an exascale computing system divided between the DOE's Office and Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration. This budget is reportedly the first that specifies "exascale" instead of "extreme scale" computing. Computerworld