Posted on 11/26/2016 3:28:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
The supercomputer race has only just begun. Japan is currently planning to build the world’s fastest supercomputer. The machine, nicknamed AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI), would ideally be able to process 130 quadrillion calculations per second or 130 petaflops.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for scientists, companies, and bureaucrats to work together in order to dominate robotics, renewable energy, and other up and coming industries. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) on the supercomputer project and should commence in early 2017.
Japan is particularly interested in artificial intelligence such as “deep learning”, with one of the supercomputer’s goals would being to help tap medical records to develop new services and applications. The supercomputer could be useful in improving driver-less cars by analyzing traffic and refining factory automation as well.
China’s supercomputer, Sunway Taihulight, is currently only capable of 93 petaflops and is used for weather forecasting, pharmaceutical research, industrial design, etc.
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No way to wrap my mind around that figure.
_Resident 0bama has called for community organizers, BLMers, and bureaucrats to work together in order to indoctrinate, pussify, U.S. education through kommon kore maffs, and to dominate pay to play Solyndra-esque industries.
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.
yeah send him to the moon. Maybe he will help find ET for Hillary
here’s one to think about: “Because we can and those Americans won’t”
OK, we'll simplify it: Only 130 petaflops.
You are right. The US is worried about who goes into who’s bathroom’s, LGBT rights, illegal invaders, innocent Muslim terrorists, BLM, etc......
We don’t have time to build supercomputers.
A high-end Intel desktop CPU will do over 300 gigaflops. This super-computer is intended to be able to do 500 thousand times better.
How many is that in "one potato...two potato...
still not faster than when the light turns green and the guy behind you is on his horn.
I don't know, I don't even know what one flop is let alone a petaflop............
Exactly. We might also set up some mining operations and low gravity science labs to give them something to do when not golfing.
A flop is a floating point operation.
Well that's certainly good to know.........So if I decide to impress my circle of fellow retirees, how do I use it in a sentence that would make sense to them?
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