"Dawn"
What a fine name for a machine modelling Instant Sunshine....
The American government's appetite for ever-bigger gobs of supercomputing power has been a blessing for IBM and Cray, and this morning it was Big Blue's turn to brag about two big deals it has scored with Uncle Sam. The first and smallest of the two machines, nicknamed Dawn, will be installed in the second half of this year at …
20PF is ostensibly enough for functional whole brain emulation. See http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf. http://www.mattbamberger.com/content/LetsBuildABrain. http://singularity.com/charts/page71.html. Is Rapture for the geeks closer than most of us realise?