Nvida processors.
Maybe they are just using them to Bitcoin mine.
[[That makes it a million times faster than your typical laptop.]]
Woohoo- now i can get information overload that much quicker
[[Next year China will have one that looks suspiciously like ours. ]]
But the stickers will be different at least
Next year China will have one that looks suspiciously like ours.
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But far faster ... since China has taken the lead in quantum computing, their next one will be a mega-fast quantum computer, unbreakable, uninterceptable communication will be its forte
This kind of competition is great, and has always driven the US to greater technological heights.
Yes! What is to keep the Chinese from hacking into this computer and then copying it.
https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-launches-summit-supercomputer
ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer
New 200-Petaflops System Debuts as America’s Top Supercomputer for Science
But mainframes are obsolete because they're huge and heavy and take a lot of power ...
Want to overload it?
Ask it to explain women to men using AI heuristics.
we should have elected what’s her name. She would have given them one.
Gee, I wonder who China copied when they had the fastest computer?
I’m guessing China already has the plans ,LOL
Define fast. Accessing data? Time for executing instructions? Time for calculating PI to the 20 millionth decimal position? Time for balancing my checkbook?
Yeah, it’s fast, but can it post cute kitty pictures on Facebook?
Sorry, world’s fastest computer was the quickly dissapearing Wasserman Schultz DNC server...
I am surprise since China must have thousands of spies and “honey pots” in America.
Does the number of back doors built into this machine scale with the increase in the number of calculations or with the number of processors?
I remember when Cray was the standard for super computers. I imagine a typical desk top computer has as much power as the original Cray.
http://www.oakridger.com/news/20180608/ornl-now-home-to-americas-top-supercomputer-for-science
“Today’s launch of the Summit supercomputer demonstrates the strength of American leadership in scientific innovation and technology development. It’s going to have a profound impact in energy research, scientific discovery, economic competitiveness, and national security,” said Secretary Perry. “I am truly excited by the potential of Summit, as it moves the nation one step closer to the goal of delivering an exascale supercomputing system by 2021. Summit will empower scientists to address a wide range of new challenges, accelerate discovery, spur innovation, and above all, benefit the American people.”
Connecting ‘more’ computers together to work the Benchmarks isnt hard these days - only takes money these days - as its a scaling thing.
More important : is there a task for such machines to do that cant be handled piecemeal by lesser systems.
60% jump in capacity is nice, but the GPUs (those board you use in your PC to run recent games) with their massive SIMPLE processing abilities are limited only to certain problem sets.