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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hothardware.com ...
_Resident 0bama isn’t measured in petaflops but rather in megaflops.
Just think how fast I can update my facebook!!! YAY.
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.
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.
Just how does that differ from a “sinking point operation”?
Windows will be filled with enough bloatware to slow it down to PIII speeds.
Integer operations typically take one cycle of the clock. Floating point operations take longer, depending on the hardware involved.
Hmmm...My DOS workstation can easily out-do that at 1-million giglyflops...
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.
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.
But does it make muslimes feel better?
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.
or Breitbart.com (cough cough...)
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