The US wants to allow the supercomputer to manage nuclear potential of the country
Source:Today, supercomputers are often used for a variety of tasks. The computing power of modern supercomputers allow to carry out complex mathematical calculations to help in the creation of new effective drugs and even the search for extraterrestrial life. However, these applications do not cause issues, as it aimed, in fact, on . Only recently it became known that a group of U.S. companies developing new (and very powerful) supercomputer that will manage all nuclear capabilities. Should we start to fear?
Who is developing supercomputer to manage nuclear weapons
As the publication of Еngadget, for the creation of the supercomputer meets the U.S. Department of energy (DOE) and National nuclear security administration (NNSA). Recently, these organizations announced that they have signed a contract with Cray to develop the first military supercomputer called «El Capitan» (as well as new version of OS from . A coincidence?). — an American company, one of the main manufacturers of supercomputers in the U.S. since the 70-ies of the last century. The list of customers of Cray US army, NASA and several research institutes on the territory of the United States and abroad.
Why you need a supercomputer
As stated in the official press release, the El Capitan job will be to execute basic functions to control the nuclear reserves of the country, to monitor the safety and efficacy of storing nuclear weapons, and to develop measures necessary to address possible emerging threats to national security such as nuclear non-proliferation and counter-terrorism. The other important factor is, according to the Deputy Director of the National office of nuclear security and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the possibility of «to be more flexible in terms of balance in the framework of the nuclear deterrent».
El Capitan will be more than 1.5 exaflops, which will produce around 1.5 trillion (1 000 000 500 000 000 000) of calculations per second. Wish the same proizvoditelnosti had nastolnyy your PC? Write about it in our
El Capitan is to run the application 50 times faster than Sequoia, who now works at the National laboratory of Lawrence and 10 times faster than the system Sierra. The latter, by the way, is currently the second most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is expected that work on the creation of the supercomputer will cost US 600 million dollars, and «to intrude on the post» a supercomputer needs by 2023.
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Of Course, in General, to expect a gloomy future in the style universe of the film «Terminator» is not necessary, because the supercomputer will be used only for calculations and it has not even the beginnings of artificial intelligence in the conventional sense. On the other hand, El Capitan — it's all the same technique. And the technique sometimes may fail. And what if there's a glitch in the computer which is responsible for the entire nuclear potential of the vast country, can only guess. Maybe do you have any idea about this?
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