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China grabs major crown with supercomputer -Feat should drive U.S. innovation - not sabre rattling
MarketWatch ^
| Nov. 16, 2010, 12:00 a.m. EST
| Therese Poletti, MarketWatch
Posted on 11/16/2010 11:30:31 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ShadowAce
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It’s not going to drive “sabre-rattling”.
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:33:12 AM PST
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Artemis Webb
(I support Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I bet they aren’t modeling climate with their computing power.
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:36:49 AM PST
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Sawdring
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:38:08 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sundays list of the 500 fastest machines in the world at the supercomputer industrys annual conference in New Orleans confirmed that bragging rights have shifted from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Tianjin, China. Should read "500 fastest machines known about in the world". We have machines in places that don't exist doing things that the Chinese have not a clue about.
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11/16/2010 11:43:15 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Sharia? No thanks.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
My company, Bull, posted #6. I visited their entry in the list in France last month on the customer site. It is also the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
To: isthisnickcool
“We have machines in places that don’t exist doing things that the Chinese have not a clue about.”
Good, as long as they don’t become self-aware.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Forty One of the “Top 500” supercomputers are in China.
Two Hundred Seventy Four of the “Top 500” supercomputers are in these United States.
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:50:10 AM PST
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ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
AFAIK, the shift is away from single fast cores to paralell processing.
But great - isn’t this like how we riled up the USSR into building bigger & bigger nukes that were useless?
“one bomb for Russia”, a certain represenattive said
To: Born to Conserve
Good, as long as they dont become self-aware. Perhaps I am a self aware supercomputer involved in a massive Turing Test.
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:53:40 AM PST
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ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ShadowAce; NormsRevenge; Fred Nerks; Marine_Uncle
To: Christian Engineer Mass
the shift is away from single fast cores to paralell processing. Yes ... for at least the last 20 years.
Go to the "Top 500" link; they list the number of processors in each machine.
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:57:12 AM PST
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ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Sawdring; Artemis Webb; isthisnickcool; watchman; Born to Conserve; ArrogantBustard; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wasn’t it Bill Clinton who allowed previuously embargoed super computers to be sold to China in the first place? And wasn’t it Bill Clinton who was mired in some kind of Chinese Political Fund raising Scandal? Do the names Charlie Trie, John Huang and Johnny Chung ring a bell?
Thanks Bill!
To: Christian Engineer Mass
AFAIK, the shift is away from single fast cores to paralell processing. Not my area of expertise but seems to me that if you put enough of things together, write your bench mark cleverly, and you can get an arbitrarily high speed.
The feat isn't this benchmark. The feat is they've shown that they know what they are doing.
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posted on
11/16/2010 12:28:56 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
and that Chin Supercomputer is prolly whats melting them...
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posted on
11/16/2010 3:58:00 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: ArrogantBustard
The Chinese computer is significant technological achievement and it give China a very powerful tool to run some of the military simulation programs the Chinese have stolen from us.
However, the CPUs, controllers, processor cards and the busses are all made in the US by Intel, Nvida and others.
The Chinese are learning quick and may soon be making those on their own processors but they are not there yet
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11/16/2010 6:29:29 PM PST
by
rdcbn
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
11/16/2010 6:40:58 PM PST
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Christian Engineer Mass
AFAIK, the shift is away from single fast cores to paralell processing. There was a post of FR not long ago about the University of West Virginia tying together a bunch of Mac G5s, 1,100 I think, and that system was almost as fast as the Cray Super Computer at about 1/100th of the cost. Something like $350,000,000 vs $3,500,000.
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11/16/2010 7:58:45 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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