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Chinese Supercomputer Is Ranked World’s Second-Fastest, Challenging U.S. Dominance
New York Times ^
| 06/01/2010
| John Markoff
Posted on 06/01/2010 10:32:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The new system, which is based on a microprocessor that has been designed and manufactured in China, is now expected later this year. A number of supercomputing industry scientists and engineers said that it was possible that the new machine would claim the title of worlds fastest.
To: SeekAndFind
dang.. the Chinese designing such a fast chip? incredible!
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:33:54 AM PDT
by
Ancient Drive
(DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
To: SeekAndFind
Bill Gates & Microcrap working on ways to slow it down as we speak.
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:34:52 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: SeekAndFind
Amazing, yet it is the case that supercomputing has lost its shine in the USA since there is no business case for massive modeling of extremely complex systems.
Instead we have much more money and research pouring into web-server, networking, and database infrastructure which is generally composed of a workload spread across many lesser systems .
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:36:24 AM PDT
by
ikka
To: Ancient Drive
Yeah, but can they drive it???
To: Ancient Drive
Do you really think they designed it? I bet if you looked closely you would see a bunch of patents which were violated (both software and hardware). I am not a computer guy, but I have experience with how they handle IP in the mobile equipment industry.
To: SeekAndFind
But, after an hour, you want to run the data again...
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:36:42 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(If someone calls me a racist I tell them, "you're just saying that because I'm white.")
To: norraad
guess it’s not running windows...
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:36:42 AM PDT
by
brivette
To: SeekAndFind
R&D follows manufacturing. Who knew?
We are reaping the rewards of our own stupidity as a nation.
It’s going to get much worse.
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:37:11 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
To: SeekAndFind
Yup, it can pick one item from Column A, two from Column B and six from Column C in just a few seconds.
Simply amazing!
Wait! No MSG!
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:38:22 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: exhaustguy
oh I agree. I’m 100% sure they broke a couple of patents to get there.
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:38:23 AM PDT
by
Ancient Drive
(DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
To: SeekAndFind
1.27 petaflops the equivalent of one thousand trillion one thousand trillion
one million billion
one billion million
one trillion thousand
one quadrillion
Wonder why the writer chose that phrase?
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:39:05 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: DoughtyOne
We keep ridiculing cheap and throw-away Chinese goods.
We forget that when it comes to matters of national security, the Chinese do not compromise on quality, reliability and safety.
We ignore them and their national will to challenge us at our peril.
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To: exhaustguy
Do you really think they designed it?
Let's just say for the sake of argument that they copied the technology... the next question comes to mind --- what's to stop them from going to the next stage -- actually innovating and improving on this technology ?
Just go to any insitution of higher learning in this country and even in Europe and count the number of Chinese enrolled in their technical programs -- engineering, software, physics, bio-technology, math, the sciences and you being to ask yourselves, how many of us wish to excel in these fields versus them...
To: SeekAndFind
Because cracking down on dissent online is so hard you need a supercomputer. Turns out they are handy for nuclear weapons modeling as well.
/johnny
To: SeekAndFind
The Chinese are putting everything they have in getting the top spot. We still have over 1/2 the Supercomputers that exist in the world. It will be a long times before they have any kind of dominance in this field. I am certain if one were to look at these processors they have 'designed', you will notice that they look very similar to something Intel or AMD makes, only reversed-engineered. The Chinese don't have the R&D that we have. They can't invent their own stuff. They only copy what we have and put it in larger scale.
U.S. companies are far ahead. The next generation of tech is assuring our supercomputers will be over 100 times faster in 8 years than anything the Chinese came make now.
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:49:17 AM PDT
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lmr
(God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
To: jessduntno
“But, after an hour, you want to run the data again...”
Lol at that.
To: lmr
I can’t type on this laptop... Sorry for the errors.
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posted on
06/01/2010 10:50:33 AM PDT
by
lmr
(God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
To: exhaustguy
Do you really think they designed it?
Probably based on Loongson, which executes the MIPS ISA.
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