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Currently, the world's most powerful supercomputers can ramp up to more than a thousand trillion operations per second, or a petaflop. But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past. On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
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The development rate began tapering off around 2008. Between 2010 and 2013, aggregate increases ranged between 26 percent and 66 percent. And on this June's list, there was a mere 17 percent increase from last November.
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Despite the slowdown, many computational scientists expect performance to reach exascale, or more than a billion billion operations per second, by 2020.
Hmm, if they reach exascale computing will the weatherman finally be able to predict if it's going to rain this afternoon? Because he sucks at that now.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VortexCortex on Monday July 20 2015, @09:53PM
If you think it's bad now, just wait for 2016. Our Weather satellites (esp. polar orbiting sats) didn't get funding soon enough and we'll have even shittier data to feed the models, esp. after the west coast GOES13 sat failed. [space.com] The rest of the world made the US the butt of a joke since we can spend trillions on wars to ensure oil is priced in $US -- spending more than NASA's entire budget just on air conditioning troops -- but we didn't spend a few million to ensure NOAA has working weather satellites. [gao.gov] Weather sats scheduled to replace the ones which were nearing end of life went unfunded which creates a "weather satellite gap". [weather.com]
Protip: Before you start a software inquisition always (read: ALWAYS) check that your input isn't garbage first.