The US Army Research Labs (ARL) has put forward a plan to outrun China in the supercomputer stakes, develop quantum computing, and create The Terminator.*
In spite – or perhaps because – of a likely budget squeeze, the ARL says it needs to “harness the potential of computational sciences and emerging high-performance computers (HPC)”.
The Army's Technical Implementation Plan (PDF) calls for the petascale system to be in place before 2019.
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