Given that the petascale barrier has only recently been broken, it may come as a surprise that the next jaw-dropping level of HPC is already receiving serious attention. Exascale computing — 10^18, or a quintillion, floating-point operations per second — is a scale of computing that most in the HPC community have only recently fantasized about (and been terrified by).
The Exciting World of Exascale
May 3, 2010