An Executive Order I Can Support! (W5)

President Obama has signed an order for the new initiative, National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI).  The goal is to get rolling on making an exaflop supercomputer.

From the article here:

Supercomputers are at the heart of a huge number of important scientific and defense research projects. They’re used by aerospace engineers to model planes and weapons, and by climatologists to predict the the near-term impact of hurricanes and the long-term effects of climate change. Researchers involved in the White House’s Precision Medicine initiative believe exaflop speed supercomputers could aid the creation of personalized drugs, while the European Commission’s Human Brain Project hopes they will help unlock the secrets of the human brain.

Let's do this!