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NSA Is Again Building The World's Most Powerful Supercomputers

The document discusses several topics: 1) The NSA is building a new 260,000 square foot supercomputer center at Oak Ridge National Labs to house a new supercomputer called Titan capable of 20 thousand trillion calculations per second, making it the most powerful in the world currently. 2) Location and account data from emails can help identify the senders, as was the case in the Petraeus scandal where this led investigators to discover his affair. 3) Computer science professor Eric Brewer was headed to Google to help build a new computing platform spanning dozens of data centers to instantly process requests from billions globally with milliseconds of response time. The CAP theorem establishes that distributed systems at Google's scale require compromising some consistency

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NSA Is Again Building The World's Most Powerful Supercomputers

The document discusses several topics: 1) The NSA is building a new 260,000 square foot supercomputer center at Oak Ridge National Labs to house a new supercomputer called Titan capable of 20 thousand trillion calculations per second, making it the most powerful in the world currently. 2) Location and account data from emails can help identify the senders, as was the case in the Petraeus scandal where this led investigators to discover his affair. 3) Computer science professor Eric Brewer was headed to Google to help build a new computing platform spanning dozens of data centers to instantly process requests from billions globally with milliseconds of response time. The CAP theorem establishes that distributed systems at Google's scale require compromising some consistency

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NSA-only code-breakers journal Cryptologic Quarterly, the report opens a small window onto the secretive agency Today the NSA is again building the worlds most powerful supercomputers, including a 260,000 square feet Multiprogram Computational Data Center at Oak Ridge National Labs. It is set to be completed in 2018.

Uncloaked on Monday by Oak Ridge a Tennessee lab run by the Department of Energy the Titan supercomputer is a Cray machine made of nearly 19,000 processing units stitched together with 710 terabytes of memory. It can perform 20 thousand trillion calculations per second, or 20 petaflops. Thats enough to put it on top of the world, for the moment at least. The worlds second-most-powerful supercomputer is Sequoia, an IBM system at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Its been benchmarked at just over 16 petaflops. Every year careless hackers, cyberstalkers and others are undone by the digital trails they leave behind for law enforcement to collect and trace back to them. Authorities say the location data connected to the e-mails and the e-mail account from which they were sent, helped them identify the sender as Petraeus biographer, Paula Broadwell. This helped them search other e-mail accounts owned by Broadwell, including a Gmail account she used, which led them to the affair with Petraeus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Brewer, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, was headed for Google, where he would help build a brand-new computing platform that could span dozens of data centers across the globe and instantly process requests from billions of people in a matter of milliseconds. I will be leading the design of the next gen of infrastructure at Google, he wrote. The cloud is young: much to do, many left to reach. Googlenet . The CAP Theorem originated with a 2000 speech given by Brewer and was later mathematically proven by two other academics, MITs Nancy Lynch and one of her graduate students, Seth Gilbert. In short, it says that a system the size of the Googlenet always comes with a compromise.

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