US heats up supercomputer battle with China; building two 20-petaflop systems
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China owns Lenovo who owns IBM
The thing is, what will it actually compute? Sure it's cool knowing we could build something of that power but does it even have a actual purpose?
[QUOTE=s0m3_guy;26088753]China owns Lenovo who owns IBM[/QUOTE]
Lenovo doesn't own IBM. Lenovo bought a small section of IBM in 2005, that's it. Lenovo is actually nowhere near as big as IBM.
[QUOTE=Glitch360;26077275]I think the real question here is: will it be able to run Crysis?[/QUOTE]
No, you need at least 48 petaflops to run Crysis 2.
[QUOTE=ejonkou;26083965]When theres a world war theres no real technology advancements, everything is about the military.[/QUOTE]
Many of those advancements help the civilian populace as well.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;26088135]Well, let's see.
Gaming 1980:
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Gaming 2010
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So, games in 2040? Shiiiit.[/QUOTE]
And what's the difference? You know, PCs aren't just games...
Chances are, this machine will be crunching weather patterns or the USA's nuclear arsenal decay rates. It won't run crysis, it's linux.
I bet when they are done working on the two supercomputers China or US would already have technology to create an even better one.
[QUOTE=Firefox42;26088840]The thing is, what will it actually compute? Sure it's cool knowing we could build something of that power but does it even have a actual purpose?[/QUOTE]
I think it's safer to have the world's most powerful supercomputer then not having it.
I don't understand why they keep putting a ton of cpu's/gpu's together instead of just focusing on making them more powerful. Do we not have the technology to do that yet or something?
[QUOTE=RedDemon;26099276]I don't understand why they keep putting a ton of cpu's/gpu's together instead of just focusing on making them more powerful. Do we not have the technology to do that yet or something?[/QUOTE]
Why do you think we aren't going over 4ghz on individual cores? Heat issues. Having more cores is a better solution.
[QUOTE=ejonkou;26083965]When theres a world war theres no real technology advancements, everything is about the military.[/QUOTE]
Thanks to war we have new medicines, new machines, new surgical techniques.
Guns have saved millions more than they have ever killed thanks to the trickle down effect of military research.
[QUOTE=bravehat;26100813]Thanks to war we have new medicines, new machines, new surgical techniques.
Guns have saved millions more than they have ever killed thanks to the trickle down effect of military research.[/QUOTE]
Now that you mention it, I kinda wanna see a bona fide statistic on that. :v:
Well you could chalk up the number of people who receive medical care from the end of the first world war til today, against those that died in wars since 1914.
I'll be fucked sideways seven times til Sunday before I do that shit.
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