Intel working with US government to build its fastest computer by 2021
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A US government-led group is working with chipmaker Intel and Cray to develop and build the nation’s fastest computer dubbed Aurora by 2021 for conducting nuclear weapons and other research. The $500 million contracts for the project calls on the companies to deliver a computer with so-called exaflop performance which will be able to perform 1 quintillion or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.