Posted on 11/13/2018 3:25:08 AM PST by ShadowAce
While IBM dominates the top of the list with Sierra and Summit, overall Lenovo is the leader in terms of total systems with 117. "Last year, we set a goal to become the world’s largest provider of TOP500 computing systems by 2020. We have reached that goal two years ahead of our original plan,” Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group, wrote in a statement.
The U.S. once stood far and alone in the supercomputer market. Then sone fools (or traitors) let NASA put their supercomputer code in Linux and give it away to China for free...
Traitors.
You do know the differences between application code and OS code, right?
Of course. But from the sound of your question, it doesn’t sound like you realize that is not what is being benchmarked. In fact there is now way to even compare application code performance between the U.S and China, because there are no set standards by which to measure, nor is that code even available for review. As far as anyone knows, their application code could far exceed ours, so with all respect your question seems completely off base. Or more likely, a diversion attempt to justify our extremely sensitive U.S government code being put into the foreign born Linux clone of Unix, then given to the rest of the world for free.
I’m thinking not ...
My question was aimed at your original assertion that Linux was to blame for China being in the top spot.
But can I play The Crew on a large 3D monitor at max resolution with all the bells and whistles turned on with no glitching?
Put McAfee drive encryption on and see things deteriorate.
Another miserable product.
Yeah—I know a lot of people who consider anything by McAfee is a virus.
ML/NJ
1000 teraflops.
Not really sure what your claim is? What did NASA supposedly “give away”? SMP scheduling? Their MPI implementation? Modern supercomputers are built to use fairly standard software components. Not much “secret sauce” here that the Chinese couldn’t do themselves if they needed to.
You almost make sense. Data management belongs to the OS, and to,the app; data manipulation mainly to the app (yes, I know there are certain optimized shell functions, but they’re a PITA for all but simple files). The key is that a bottleneck in either one will kill performance, see also Amdahl’s Law. So why solve half the problem for the Chicoms? (Not to mention Lenovo itself as a security risk.)
I thought it was Spyware.
What I think is funny is the absolute dearth of anything with MS-Windows. It would appear that only Unix and Linux are up to the task.
Ridiculous. NASA made countless “contributions” to the world at large, and being the government they should be the last one giving our best technological secrets away to supposedly save money. NUMA was one of the most important ones, which affects network drivers and memory management specific for supercomputer performance. IBM and SGI were the 2 main partners, one dead now and the other one dying.
Wow. You don't really think things through very well, do you?
Our "best technological secrets" are classified. Which means they don't show up anywhere outside of the NSA/CIA/etc.
What was contributed is not classified, by definition. Hence, they are NOT our secrets. NUMA may be useful, but I bet better exists somewhere that we are not allowed access.
Tone your LDS down a little. We'll get along better.
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