Looks like Big brother got a competition in the field.Back in June, China debuted the world's fastest supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight (pictured), with a Linpack benchmark result of 93 petaflop/s. That machine contains 40,960 locally developed ShenWei processors, each with 260 cores and roughly comparable with Intel's Knight's Landing Xeon Phi CPU. China also developed a 136GB/sec memory controller and custom interconnect that delivers 16GB/sec of peak bandwidth between nodes.
Now China is working on a prototype exascale (1,000-petaflop) system that it aims to complete by the end of this year, according to state media. An exascale computer is capable of a quintillion calculations per second, and could deliver vast dividends in deep learning and big data across a variety of disciplines as varied as nuclear test research, code breaking, and weather forecasting.
Believe me I had thought of that before writing. But I couldn't do so because China's super computer is based on home grown CPUs and so must be the BIOS indeed. Why would anybody leave x86/IBM and compatible BIOS which are made under the US supervision if you plan on being a partner in that field.
More leverage to the value of the information you hold in knowing that they don't have it or can get to it.Originally Posted by sumitlian
Believe me I had thought of that before writing. But I couldn't do so because China's super computer is based on home grown CPUs and so must be the BIOS indeed. Why would anybody leave x86/IBM and compatible BIOS which are made under the US supervision if you plan on being a partner in that field.
*heavy breathing*China also developed a 136GB/sec memory controller...
One is a small group of people throwing a lot of money at the problem, the other is fundamentally changing a lifestyle of an entire population. The former is far easier to do than the latter.
Wow. That's absolutely unacceptable in a work environment.
My friend, whose field of expertise is DNA and DNA reconstruction, couldn't believe his department had been allocated a few nodes of the Tianhe-2, he was so excited. That is until he had to go out and buy his own blades lol. You can't imagine how furious he was.Originally Posted by lombardsoup
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Wow. That's absolutely unacceptable in a work environment.
And plenty of young people would rather walk the same road and see if they reach to the same conclusion for themselves.Originally Posted by tp4tissue
Well.... we don't really know what the NSA has.. I'm sure the classified puters' are likely faster.
The cost of a terrorist attack is far in excess of a giant computer to intrude privacy and big-brother people.
Sigh.. the cost of privacy .. sigh........ I'm an old guy.. freedom and these ideologies seem important to young people..
But when you get older, you'd see, people don't need privacy, what people need is Less violence, 3 meals and some sleep..
All of that emotionally charged running at young age.. it just wasn't productive
Now China is working on a prototype exascale (1,000-petaflop) system that it aims to complete by the end of this year, according to state media. An exascale computer is capable of a quintillion calculations per second, and could deliver vast dividends in deep learning and big data across a variety of disciplines as varied as nuclear test research, code breaking, and weather forecasting.
"A complete computing system of the exascale supercomputer and its applications can only be expected in 2020, and will be 200 times more powerful than the country's first petaflop computer Tianhe-1, recognized as the world's fastest in 2010," said Zhang Ting, an application engineer at Tianjin's National Super Computer Center, to Xinhua news agency (via AFP).
Do you use curtains? Do you like people staring at your phone while you're using it? Do you like people searching through your pockets?Originally Posted by tp4tissue
Well.... we don't really know what the NSA has.. I'm sure the classified puters' are likely faster.
The cost of a terrorist attack is far in excess of a giant computer to intrude privacy and big-brother people.
Sigh.. the cost of privacy .. sigh........ I'm an old guy.. freedom and these ideologies seem important to young people..
But when you get older, you'd see, people don't need privacy, what people need is Less violence, 3 meals and some sleep..
All of that emotionally charged running at young age.. it just wasn't productive
I'd be willing to bet you 10 bucks to a donut as many times over as you want that the U.S. alone has 4 or 5 classified systems faster already, let alone the rest of the world.
It has been pretty well known that the U.S. Government has done a lot of work on Quantum Computing, and likely has something a few factors more powerful than what D-Wave has, for comparison. Even Microsoft and Google were able to keep advanced systems hidden from public and investor view for a number of years in terms of HoloLens and AI advancements.
Best argument for a police state ever.Originally Posted by tp4tissue
Well.... we don't really know what the NSA has.. I'm sure the classified puters' are likely faster.
The cost of a terrorist attack is far in excess of a giant computer to intrude privacy and big-brother people.
Sigh.. the cost of privacy .. sigh........ I'm an old guy.. freedom and these ideologies seem important to young people..
But when you get older, you'd see, people don't need privacy, what people need is Less violence, 3 meals and some sleep..
All of that emotionally charged running at young age.. it just wasn't productive
Considering 85% of all products are made in China I would say you are definitely right, better throw your clothing away and go naked.
That's a Stuporcomputer.
I'm sure it can but who wants to run Crysis on a computer that constantly crashes?Originally Posted by The Robot
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That's a Stuporcomputer.
But can it run Crysis?
This has been said for decades and we're still not close to actually utilising quantum computing other than for experimentation and research.
Nope. I walk out the front porch, one ball hanging out my boxers with a beer and my laptop..
HAHAOriginally Posted by tp4tissue
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Nope. I walk out the front porch, one ball hanging out my boxers with a beer and my laptop..
Once you get to my age.. Privacy.. what is that..... ?
Many of the possible applications have no overlap. What you're suggesting is like buying a console for office work.