{"id":15897,"date":"2015-08-04T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/obama-signs-executive-order-authorizing-development-of-exascale-supercomputers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:49","slug":"obama-signs-executive-order-authorizing-development-of-exascale-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/obama-signs-executive-order-authorizing-development-of-exascale-supercomputers","title":{"rendered":"Obama signs executive order authorizing development of exascale supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/obama-signs-executive-order-authorizing-development-of-exascale-supercomputers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Titan, former world\u2019s fastest supercomputer (credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) <\/p>\n<p>President Obama has signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/07\/29\/executive-order-creating-national-strategic-computing-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> authorizing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), with the goal of creating the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers. The NSCI is charged with building the world\u2019s first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exascale_computing\" target=\"_blank\">exascale<\/a> (1,000-petaflops) computer \u2014 30 times faster than today\u2019s fastest supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>The order mandates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/obama-signs-executive-order-authorizing-development-of-exascale-supercomputers\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titan, former world\u2019s fastest supercomputer (credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) President Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), with the goal of creating the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers. The NSCI is charged with building the world\u2019s first-ever exascale (1,000-petaflops) computer \u2014 30 times faster than today\u2019s fastest supercomputer. The order [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69766,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions\/69766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}