[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Artemis Webb]

It’s not going to drive “sabre-rattling”.

[Sawdring]

I bet they aren’t modeling climate with their computing power.

[ShadowAce]

[isthisnickcool]

Sunday’s list of the 500 fastest machines in the world at the supercomputer industry’s annual conference in New Orleans confirmed that bragging rights have shifted from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Tianjin, China.

Should read "500 fastest machines known about in the world". We have machines in places that don't exist doing things that the Chinese have not a clue about.

[the_Watchman]

My company, Bull, posted #6. I visited their entry in the list in France last month on the customer site. It is also the fastest supercomputer in Europe.

[ArrogantBustard]

Forty One of the “Top 500” supercomputers are in China.

Two Hundred Seventy Four of the “Top 500” supercomputers are in these United States.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

AFAIK, the shift is away from single fast cores to paralell processing.

But great - isn’t this like how we riled up the USSR into building bigger & bigger nukes that were useless?

“one bomb for Russia”, a certain represenattive said

[LesPaul59]

Wasn’t it Bill Clinton who allowed previuously embargoed super computers to be sold to China in the first place? And wasn’t it Bill Clinton who was mired in some kind of Chinese Political Fund raising Scandal? Do the names Charlie Trie, John Huang and Johnny Chung ring a bell?

Thanks Bill!

[Captain Beyond]

bflr