hi everyone this is dave vellante of the cube and i want to share with you an exciting development with some financial support from hpe the cube is hosting exascale day on friday october 16th high performance technical and business communities are coming together to celebrate exascale day now exascale day is happening on october 18th that's 10 18 as in 10 to the power of 18. now on that day we celebrate the scientists and researchers who make breakthrough discoveries with the assistance of some of the largest supercomputers in the world 10 to the power of 18 is a 1 with 18 zeros after that's six commas or seis comas for you russ hannemann fans of silicon valley fame remember he could only get to tres comas and he became suicidal when his net worth dropped below a billion aka dos comas now an exit scale computer exascale supercomputer can do math at the rate of 10 to the power of 18 calculations per second those are those calculations are called flops or floating point operations per second that's a billion calculations per second or exa-flops now we haven't hit that level yet that exit scale level but dollars to donuts we'll buy we will by next year now today we can do header scale computing that's 10 to the power of 15 calculations per second and we entered the petascale era in 2007 before that was the terrascale era it's kind of like dinosaurs which began in the middle of the dot-com boom in 1997. that's 10 to the 12th calculations per second or trillion per second so we can almost get our heads around that and all the way back in 1972 we had the first gigascale computer which was one times ten to the ninth yeah that's more russ hannemann's speed sorry rush you're not invited to at the exascale day party but you are so go to events dot cube365.net slash 10-18 exascale day it's right there in the screen so check it out mark your calendar we'll be sending out notices so don't worry if you're driving right now we have some of the smartest people in the world joining us they're going to share how innovations with supercomputing are changing the world in healthcare space exploration artificial intelligence and these other mind-melting projects we're super excited to be participating in this program we look forward to some great conversations october 16th right before exascale day put on your calendar see you there