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Japan Looks To Leapfrog China With 130 Petaflop Supercomputer
hothardware.com ^ | Saturday, November 26, 2016 | Brittany Goetting —

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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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bhoasia; china; japan
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To: Repeat Offender

_Resident 0bama isn’t measured in petaflops but rather in megaflops.


21 posted on 11/26/2016 4:27:20 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changed)
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To: BenLurkin

Just think how fast I can update my facebook!!! YAY.


22 posted on 11/26/2016 4:29:15 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


23 posted on 11/26/2016 4:40:50 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


24 posted on 11/26/2016 4:45:28 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: the_Watchman
"Cranking the flops"?


25 posted on 11/26/2016 4:47:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mycroft Holmes

Just how does that differ from a “sinking point operation”?


26 posted on 11/26/2016 4:48:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Organic Panic

Windows will be filled with enough bloatware to slow it down to PIII speeds.


27 posted on 11/26/2016 4:59:41 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Hot Tabasco
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?
"Ok, if your are programming computers there are two types of addition/subtraction you can do, Integer operations which are whole numbers with no fractional part or floating point numbers which do have a fractional part, e.g. 1.234

Integer operations typically take one cycle of the clock. Floating point operations take longer, depending on the hardware involved.

28 posted on 11/26/2016 5:04:17 PM PST by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: PapaBear3625
"A high-end Intel desktop CPU will do over 300 gigaflops."

Hmmm...My DOS workstation can easily out-do that at 1-million giglyflops...

29 posted on 11/26/2016 5:09:20 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: PROCON

That is one flop. Now imagine that happening 3,000 times per second for ten million years and that's pretty close to 130 petaflops.

30 posted on 11/26/2016 6:04:08 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


31 posted on 11/26/2016 6:43:14 PM PST by Rad_J
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To: BenLurkin

But does it make muslimes feel better?


32 posted on 11/26/2016 7:17:35 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: BenLurkin
130 petaflops

Hillary did 2 flops, and she was devastated both times.
33 posted on 11/26/2016 7:35:27 PM PST by adorno (w)
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To: Hot Tabasco
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?

Just tell your friends about the biggest flop of all, Obama, and then tell them to imagine Obama 130 quadrillion times, but all in one second.
34 posted on 11/26/2016 7:40:05 PM PST by adorno (w)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


35 posted on 11/26/2016 10:23:22 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: wally_bert

or Breitbart.com (cough cough...)


36 posted on 11/26/2016 11:54:15 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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