Erik P. DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories theorizes that a zettaFLOPS (1021, one sextillion FLOPS) computer is required to accomplish full weather modeling, which could cover a two-week time span accurately.
Uporabljal naj bi intel MIC multi-core procesorsko arhitekturo, ki je intelov odgovor na sisteme z grafičnimi procesorji, SGI namerava doseči 500-kratno povečanje učinkovitosti do leta 2018, da bi dosegli en exaflop.