China Overtakes U.S. with World's Fastest Supercomputer
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Didn't the head of IBM say something similar about the 486? 20 to 30 years from know our home computers will be running at that kind of speed (and struggling to run crysis Immersive Holographic edition).Greg Tito said:
I cant remember the specifics, I think the US gave the virus ot israel to plant, because the US has a treaty saying they wont use computer warfare in a first strike situation, but israel doesnt give a shit.Akalabeth said:
And I think the virus was something to do with monitoring the plants/computers so they could tell if sneaky stuff was happening...or some shit
Wont be long before China beats the US at everything. I live in America and even I can tell that America is starting to suck.
what the fuck do they do with all that processing power? seriously?
also what the fuck is a petaflop? i swear they are making this shit up.
also what the fuck is a petaflop? i swear they are making this shit up.
Never?SachielOne said:
Emp doesn't work that way. Emp causes chaos by shutting down everything at the same time, which usually results in pretty complicated rebooting procedures. First the powerplants need to get their shit in order, then the distribution stations on their end, then the stations on route, then the stations in the city, then the substations, then the building's power and finally the machinery itself. In that order. With no communication.
You don't "accidentally" do that to the capital of a fellow superpower.
and the NSA / MI6 / FSB / Mossad etc would tell everyone about their supercomputers and their specifications ....why?gort said:
Can it model the motion of a Higgs Boson? No? I thought not. Now stop fucking bragging on your useless achievement and make some real scientific progress China. The rest of the world is getting tired of your constant one-upsmanship.
Usually these types of supercomputers are used to model the motions of quantum particles. Currently we are trying to build computers that can reliably model a black hole, but they don't realize that our understanding of such things are hopelessly quaint, computer models of them will never be accurate to any degree. Also, people in quantum physics like to use these computers to model make-believe particles like the Higgs Boson, and Graviton.MetallicaRulez0 said:
An interesting bit of news. While I suppose it is mildly disturbing that we don't have the record at the moment, The US has been showing an odd lack of willpower when it comes to staying on top. Or at least staying on top in a fashion that the rest of the world can clearly see, like in terms of computer races.
That said, do a search for "China" "Satellite" and "Lasers" and you'll get some articles going back as far as like 2006 about Chinese Technology we haven't answered in any meaningful fashion. Look up the "Yuan Class Submarine", or for those who are concerned about domestic rights "Chinese Mobile Execution Chambers" or simply "Chinese Death Vans".
I've posted links to all of those things before. What's frightening is that our mainstream media seems to be entirely missing these things (from both parties), not to mention all of the saber rattling China has been doing about wanting to embrace it's destiny by taking over the world, or simply conquer other countries for living space.
Today if you ask most people about China they will tell you that China has a huge army but is not a threat because it can't project that power, and we could nuke them out of existance in 15 seconds. Well China has been building up it's navy, and the ships it would need to escort it effectively carrying troops (like those subs) and their anti-satellite lasers which can blind our satellites make it so that while we could probably still beat them with WMD today if we ever had the guts to use them, I'm not entirely sure if that will remain the case.
Of course this is all barring any innovations our own goverment might have that aren't being revealed to the public, however given our general tendency to talk about our technology and the contreversy surrounding things like our anti-missle/anti-ICBM systems that has Russia getting all upset about treaty violations, I'm not quite sure if I want to put my faith in X-weapons, especially given the politics involving our military nowadays.
A lot of rambling, but the bottom line here is that I'm a little surprised we haven't seen more of a response under the circumstances.
Still, despite my concerns about them and their objectives, Kudos to China for making an awesome computer. I fully admit to jealousy on this one.
That said, do a search for "China" "Satellite" and "Lasers" and you'll get some articles going back as far as like 2006 about Chinese Technology we haven't answered in any meaningful fashion. Look up the "Yuan Class Submarine", or for those who are concerned about domestic rights "Chinese Mobile Execution Chambers" or simply "Chinese Death Vans".
I've posted links to all of those things before. What's frightening is that our mainstream media seems to be entirely missing these things (from both parties), not to mention all of the saber rattling China has been doing about wanting to embrace it's destiny by taking over the world, or simply conquer other countries for living space.
Today if you ask most people about China they will tell you that China has a huge army but is not a threat because it can't project that power, and we could nuke them out of existance in 15 seconds. Well China has been building up it's navy, and the ships it would need to escort it effectively carrying troops (like those subs) and their anti-satellite lasers which can blind our satellites make it so that while we could probably still beat them with WMD today if we ever had the guts to use them, I'm not entirely sure if that will remain the case.
Of course this is all barring any innovations our own goverment might have that aren't being revealed to the public, however given our general tendency to talk about our technology and the contreversy surrounding things like our anti-missle/anti-ICBM systems that has Russia getting all upset about treaty violations, I'm not quite sure if I want to put my faith in X-weapons, especially given the politics involving our military nowadays.
A lot of rambling, but the bottom line here is that I'm a little surprised we haven't seen more of a response under the circumstances.
Still, despite my concerns about them and their objectives, Kudos to China for making an awesome computer. I fully admit to jealousy on this one.