Getting To Zettascale Without Needing Multiple Nuclear Power Plants
The Next Platform, March 3rd, 2023
With that in the rear-view mirror, attention is turning to the next challenge: Zettascale computing, some 1,000 times faster than what Frontier is running. In the heady months after his heralded 2021 return to Intel as CEO, Pat Gelsinger made headlines by saying the giant chip maker was looking at 2027 to reach zettascale.
There's no resting on your laurels in the HPC world, no time to sit back and bask in a hard-won accomplishment that was years in the making. The ticker tape has only now been swept up in the wake of the long-awaited celebration last year of finally reaching the exascale computing level, with the Frontier supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge National Labs breaking that barrier...
'So, zettascale in 2027 is a huge internal initiative that is going to bring many of our technologies together,' Gelsinger said in October 2021, responding to a question from The Next Platform. '1,000X in five years? That's pretty phenomenal.'