IBM is developing the Cyclops64 architecture, intended to create a "supercomputer on a chip".
Other PFLOPS projects include one by Narendra Karmarkar in India,[12] a CDAC effort targeted for 2010,[13] and the Blue Waters Petascale Computing System funded by the NSF ($200 million) that is being built by the NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (slated to be completed by 2011).[14]
In May 2008 a collaboration was announced between NASA, SGI and Intel to build a 1 petaflops computer, Pleiades, in 2009, scaling up to 10 PFLOPs by 2012.[15]
Given the current speed of progress, supercomputers are projected to reach 1 exaflops (1018) in 2019.[16] Futurist Ray Kurzweil expects supercomputers capable of human brain neural simulations, for which according to Kurzweil 10 exaflops (1019) would be required, in 2025.
Erik P. DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories theorizes that a zettaflops (1021) computer is required to accomplish full weather modeling, which could cover a two week time span accurately.[17] Such systems might be built around 2030
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