{"430391":{"#nid":"430391","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"David Bader Deciphers \u0027Flops\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this week, President Obama signed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/obamas-new-executive-order-says-the-us-will-build-an-exascale-supercomputer?utm_source=mbfb\u0022\u003Ean executive order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, a vast effort at creating supercomputers at exaflop scales. Cool. An exaflop-scale supercomputer is capable of 1018\u0026nbsp;floating point operations (FLOPS) per second, which is a whole lot of FLOPS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-08-03 10:41:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"kent linthicum","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/what-exactly-is-a-flop-anyway","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"349451":{"id":"349451","type":"image","title":"David Bader compressed","body":null,"created":"1449245696","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:14:56","changed":"1475895073","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:13","alt":"David Bader compressed","file":{"fid":"201027","name":"david-bader_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/david-bader_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/david-bader_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11717,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/david-bader_0_0.jpg?itok=mh2WVCp5"}}},"media_ids":["349451"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13255","name":"david bader"},{"id":"137091","name":"Exaflops"},{"id":"137101","name":"Floating Point Operations"},{"id":"137081","name":"National Strategic Computing Initiative"},{"id":"168427","name":"School of Computational Science \u0026 Engineering"},{"id":"168929","name":"supercomputers"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}