NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. has set 2023 as the target date for producing the next great leap in supercomputing, if its plans aren’t thwarted by two presidential and four Congressional elections between now and then.

It may seem odd to note the role of politics in a story about supercomputing. But as these systems get more complex — and expensive — they compete for science dollars from a Congress unafraid of cutting science funding.

That political reality has frustrated the supercomputing community, and prompted an effort at this year’s big supercomputing conference, SC14, here to educate researchers on the need to sell the benefits of supercomputing to a broader audience.

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