No way to wrap my mind around that figure.
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All the other countries have real computer scientists. Our computer scientists can only troll for Hillary, or that is the idea democrats are trying to promote.
It doesn’t sound like even one justifiable goal is in mind for this supercomputer.
These are the things we Americans should be dominating, making America great again. Plus, we should be working to build golf courses on the moon.
My employer is Bull, a French computer company. I work in Phoenix, AZ. About 5 years ago, I was on the High Performance Computer (HPC) project.
At the time, the Chinese took the lead in the public HPC MIPS race. Our company had and entry in the top 10. The Chinese entry was tuned to the test and was less useful for general computation, but it ran the test benchmark really well. The entry by Bull was on of the better general purpose entries.
I have not followed the situation recently. So I cannot say whether the Chinese machines have improved their usefulness in the interim as opposed to just cranking the flops.
still not faster than when the light turns green and the guy behind you is on his horn.
Just think how fast I can update my facebook!!! YAY.
So, if I program in a discovery, this computer can discover it faster. But if I program in nothing, It can discover nothing faster than any other computer out there.
Sounds like a government job in the making.
Perhaps 130 petaflops of processing power can make Siri useful. Or make a phone answering system actually understand the name of the person or department you are calling. Or maybe even achieve the Holy Grail - make the customer service robot actually understand your problem and give you to a human who knows how to fix it.
I’m not hopeful, however. We need to get to 130 Gazillaflops to achieve those elusive goals.
Besides, shouldn’t all that horsepower be used for the most serious problems facing mankind? Modeling the earth’s climate to solve global warming.
We have Gigabyte hard drives and now Terabyte hard drives.
Do you know why we will never have Petabyte hard drives?
Because nobody wants a Petafile on their computer.
But does it make muslimes feel better?
I searched on: supercomputer programs
What operating system do they use. Turns out it is Linux.
I do not know how anything is programed as I do not understand programming.
From a search: 10 petaflops — 10 quadrillion calculations per second, or around 200,000 times faster than your Core i7 Sandy Bridge computer - snip - a supercomputer generally has thousands of gigabytes of RAM, and sometimes hard drive storage in the petabyte range.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122159-what-can-you-do-with-a-supercomputer
I have 32gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive plus some backup drives. I remember the first computer graphics in movies and how it would be days to weeks to generate a scene that today is done on the fly.