BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Exclusive: The spy agency aims to complete the powerful, energy efficient, secure High Performance Computing Center at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., by December 2015. Power requirements are 60 megawatts, equivalent to the power requirements of Microsoft's recently completed 700,000 square foot data center in Chicago, which itself is one of the largest ever constructed for cloud services.Interestingly enough, Apple has poached Microsoft's data center general manager Kevin Timmons, as Jobs' outfit gets serious about clouds.His last tweet: "Our team is continuing to evolve our modular building strategies for even more energy efficiency and we will continue to share our best practices with others in the industry." More recently, National Defense Magazine reported that China apparently hijacked more than 15% of the world’s Internet routes for about 18 minutes (what is it with 18 minutes, anyway?) and had the potential to listen in on vast amounts of traffic.

BAD HARDWARE: Conceived in December 2010 , to finish in 2015.  It will consume energy efficient 60 MW of power supply ! What power would be used if it wasn't energy efficient?
BAD HARDWARE prediction on its max supercomputing power is: Peak 300 PFlops !

Bottom line: Future US President in 2016-2020 term should have at disposal a lot of intelligence and computing power for all kind of actions. World wide. In 1996 NSA had  first ranked high performance SC in the USA. After 20 year NSA is at the top again. But the whole world top seems.
In 2016 NSA should be at the top again ! Current China 2,5 Petaflops leader will be dwarfed,  being at least 100 times weaker. Design hint: 2,5 GB DRAM per core, conventional 48 cores.