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2010-11-15 Science & Technology

Chinese supercomputer is world's fastest

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Posted by tipper 2010-11-15 01:59|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 OK, I have to ask.
Is this simply to obtain the record (Pride) or are they actually using this supercomputer?
And if so, for WHAT?
I can think of only a very few legitimate reasons to use something that fast, and NONE deal with Commerce.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-11-15 08:05|| 2010-11-15 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 My brother's supercomputers are used to to predict the weather, Redneck Jim. Supercomputers also seem to make themselves useful for engineering (civil, industrial, material, chemical), biomedical research, physics and astronomy, etc., at least according to one of his recent research grants. He is able justify building a newer, bigger, faster one every three to five years, and has found a ready market for his old ones.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-15 08:33|| 2010-11-15 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 They will actually use it. However, the design may not in fact generate more throughput than the IBM supercomputers deliverd to the NNSA and others. And it generates a lot more heat.

Posted by lotp 2010-11-15 08:49|| 2010-11-15 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and used in medical studies, for which in this case is studying the action of proteins. Stanford has coordinated the use of personal computers and Playstations to crunch numbers. The distributive network of Playstations from peoples homes provides support that is currently generating around 1650 TFLOPs of processing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-11-15 09:20|| 2010-11-15 09:20|| Front Page Top

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