The US spent $ 425 million to

The US has announced it will spend $ 425 million to build two supercomputers three times faster than China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, as well as to study supercomputing technology.

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In a statement on November 14 (local time), the US Energy Minister (DOE) Ernest Moniz said the government would spend $ 325 million on the "Summit" supercomputer manufacturing at the National Laboratory. DOE's Oak Ridge in Tennessee and "Sierra" supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California.

According to DOE, "Summit" and "Sierra" will be 5-7 times stronger than Titan - America's fastest supercomputer today, and three times Tianhe-2 - China's fastest supercomputer today.

The government will also spend $ 100 million to continue developing "super-large " supercomputing technology - part of a research and development program called FastForward 2 .

The mission of this program is to "find ways to develop critical technologies needed" to create high-end, new generation high-end supercomputers at an affordable and energy-efficient.

This is a joint project between the DOE Science Office and the National Nuclear Security Administration with the participation of computer industry leaders AMD, Cray, IBM, Intel and NVIDIA.