HORIZON 2020 - Mont-Blanc – Scaling new heights of computing performance

Computers have been doubling in performance every two years for the last forty years but we are reaching the physical limits of what we can achieve with current semiconductor technology. An EU initiative for High Performance Computing (HPC) is looking to shake up the way in which computer processors are designed and made. The good news is that computers with higher performance will also lead to less power consumption; a win for computing and a win for the environment.

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date: 09/04/2014

Project: Mont-Blanc, European scalable and power ...

acronym: MONT-BLANC

See also: CORDIS

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The MONTBLANC project brings together leading researchers from Spain, the UK, France, Italy and Germany with the aim of delivering supercomputers that could revolutionise the way we work. These new machines would be built around 'exascale processors' – processors that can carry out in the order of 10 to the power of 18 (1, followed by eighteen zeroes) operations a second. It’s also some nine orders of magnitude faster than your current home or laptop computer.

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