Posted on 10/28/2010 12:45:31 PM PDT by pissant
A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower.
The computer, known as Tianhe-1A, has 1.4 times the horsepower of the current top computer, which is at a national laboratory in Tennessee, as measured by the standard test used to gauge how well the systems handle mathematical calculations, said Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains the official supercomputer rankings.
Although the official list of the top 500 fastest machines, which comes out every six months, is not due to be completed by Mr.
Dongarra until next week, he said the Chinese computer “blows away the existing No. 1 machine.”
He added, “We don’t close the books until Nov.1, but I would say it is unlikely we will see a system that is faster.”
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Right on!
They need horsewhipped then life in prison.
...lets be fair, and compound it with the muslim outreach program.
Technology that America bought and paid for just given away.
But it talks funny and skews recipe search results in favor of fried dog.
And can’t stay in one lane when driving 10 MPH under the speed limit.
LOL! It may be the most powerful computer known publically but I seriously doubt they can touch the stuff we have behind closed doors in places that “don’t exist”.
Yeah, but it runs DOS 23. Average uptime: three minutes.
I’m CALLING THIS AS TOTAL CHICOM LYING BULLCRAP!!!
“What is scary about this is that the U.S. dominance in high-performance computing is at risk,” said Wu-chun Feng, a supercomputing expert and professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.”
Yeah! Right.
Te Clinton Computer
I for one am unimpressed... so what ,, someone ties 1000 of the fastest processors together and claims to be fastest ,, then someone else ties 2000 of the same together and claims to be fastest. show me reliability , uptime and utility in the way of programs to use that power.
America acted stupidly in Nov 2008. Sadly the idiots who watch TV are easily manipulated by the elites.
You think the NSA has more powerful computers than academia and physics labs?
Wow..if so, I wish they could reveal them.
Ed
Bet they had to throw the damned thing away after using it that one time like all the china crap I end up buying (though the outside packaging said “Made in USA”)!!!
It does not matter how anyone “gets” technology. The fact of the matter is that the batton of technological development has been slipping out of our hands for sometime now. It isn’t that the chinese are leaping ahead. I’ts that we have been slipping behind. Yesterday’s technology is old hat, technological development does not stand still, you need inventors and developers. If we invest in crappy education and prefer an ignorant mass of people so they can vote democrat this is what you get..
Thanks to American education I’m sure. But we’ll never hear that.
Also don’t fear, that sucker is going to blow up in about a week.
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