"This week, China’s Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China. What used to be an arms race for supercomputing primacy among technological nations has turned into a blowout. The Sunway TaihuLight is indeed a monster: theoretical peak performance of 125 petaflops, 10,649,600 cores, and 1.31 petabytes of primary memory."
how can white people's supercomputers even compare?
meanwhile chinese people work in factories for 1 bowl of rice/day
Henry Gomez
Yet it runs on Linux. American software.
Jonathan Cook
will that help steal ideas before someone else invents them?
Wyatt Nguyen
what's the point? We switched over to cloud computing here. Why put all the bits in the same box? What if the power goes down?
Dominic Johnson
having a fast computer doesn't help if you don't know how to write code
Jeremiah Ortiz
Isn't everyone researching into quantum computing instead?
Nicholas Myers
"petaflop" sounds like some retarded skate-trick
Landon Reyes
This
Aiden Turner
>Linux. >American software. >kek
Linus Benedict Torvalds is Finnish, kid.
Elijah Fisher
No he's not. He became American in 2010.
Go Google it if you don't believe me.
Josiah Sullivan
Super computing is about power efficiency these days. If you want to make it economically worth while to do research they must be efficient.
Jacob Kelly
East asians are smarter than Europeans, thats a fact. Now that we live in the age of lovey-dovey (ty america) we cannot invade them anymore. We are fucked but Sup Forums still thinks that subhuman mudslimes are our biggest enemy
Grayson Roberts
>125 petaflops It's actually 329 petaflops, but only 125 petaflops calculates correctly.
Brody Sullivan
We'll need to reroute power from several subsystems to handle that kind of computational load. ETA 30 minutes.
Josiah Ortiz
>if you migrate here, you are automatically an american since birth
this meme needs to end
Easton Turner
There are over a billion chinks. They are about 60% of the world's population.
Whites are only about 10% of the world's population.
Do the math.
Jaxson Davis
if you migrate here you're an american you stupid fucking redneck retard. american isn't a race. it's a nationality which can be switched at any time
Juan Brown
That doesn't mean he isn't also finish.
Carson Bennett
>whites shit on asians >pol goes muh dick >asians shit on whites >pol goes WE WUZ SCIENTISTS N SHIEETT
gweilos truly are the niggest
Joseph Ward
Oh fucking hell, this thread.
The US will have, in deep bunkers, in the countless thousands of miles of underground bases, computers which would make this chinese computer look like a Commodore 64.
Anyone who doubts the power of technology that the US can wield is a moron.
Stealth in the 1970s. Think about that. Over 40 years ago, aircraft that even today is amazing.
CS PhD candidate here. Supercomputer is a meaningless word. If google networked more of it's servers together they could have the most powerful "supercomputer". The future is in quantum computing, in which the US handily eclipses all competitors.
The internet? Because as soon as there's a lightning storm nearby mine goes out, so I find that incredibly hard to believe
David Torres
As a whole. Not your internet.
Adrian Hill
The age of the chink is coming
Ayden Murphy
What race do you have to be to be American?
And don't say white, that's not a race
Justin Martin
>Chinese will never accept you into their society, no matter how well you learn mandarin and chinese etiquette Why even live?
Lucas King
Where the fuck in the netherlands do you live? I've never seen internet go out due to lightning over here.
Ian Howard
Technically they are doing it for a combination of security and propaganda.
If you think the TAO haven't dipped their dicks into that network though you're probably wrong - as for the propaganda side it's pretty important for some chink to be able to say "we have the fastest computer in the world".
HPC people would disagree with you - if you don't see the advantages of having a single physical network of computers with fabric interconnects and consistent latency then you've never had to work on really hard scientific problems with computers as your main tool.
Until we have secure, low-latency distributed computing networks we won't be able to match what a supercomputer can do. Botnets != HPC
Owen Reed
>Bruce Jenner became a woman >A woman has won golden medals in mens events. No, I don't think that's how this works.
Henry Ramirez
Whatever nigger. Today "Supercomputers" are just sequences of regular high-end CPUs tied together. The race to make each individual CPU stronger ended around the year 2000 when we realized that heat absorption became the primary concert for faster, more complex clock cycles. In other words, CPUs in the modern age are limited by the materials we have available to build them, not any new processing techniques, except of course for Quantum Computing and the cutting edge for QC is located squarely in Silicon Valley.
Which is staffed mostly by asians and indians at this point anyway, so there you go.
we're working on telepathy and soon we'll be able to steal the ideas the moment you think of them
Gavin Nguyen
yes it is buckle up nig nog
Eli Scott
Go, go forward my Han brethren!
Dominic Reyes
>as soon as there's a lightning storm nearby mine goes out your entire country was designed to flood
Gabriel Barnes
This still doesn't solve the nigger problem.
Henry Peterson
So literally what I said then right? If Google just networked more of it's computers together they could have the most powerful supercomputer. It's not some major accomplishment. The number of problems that require the level of computation you talk about are innumerable, but the future is not in throwing more CPUs at it.
Ryan Perez
How much WoW gold can they farm with it?
Christian Mitchell
>it needs that many cores because most are faulty or don't even fit the hardware and are sitting in a storage room labeled "Auxiliary CPUs" that has an important-looking but empty and purposeless techno pipe running between it and the housing of the computer >the flops are being misreported by scam cores that give a higher number than what's actually happening, like the fraud flash memory cards/sticks you find on eBay
Jose Gutierrez
>Still invented by an Asian
Nathan Watson
>Google what a supercomputer actually does >Can't even get a straight answer because every site just goes on into an autistic rant about "DA SPEED" and costs
Is this like the space race but with no actual end goal in mind? Just seems like mindless spending for the sake of spending and chest thumping. I'm more impressed with China trying to build underwater utopias than their stupid ass supercomputers.
Grayson Hall
Simulating things in materials science. Useful for things like optimizing the design of an engine, nuclear reactor, computer components.
Matthew Rogers
>located squarely in Silicon Valley. Keep dreaming.
Hudson Flores
Just because you're not the brightest fellow and don't understand something it does not diminish the importance of it.
Sebastian Morris
So is there something these countries are trying to achieve by improving these supercomputers? I'm assuming those things you listed are already possible so what's next?
Jason Lewis
Allegedly China is using them for simulating nuclear weapons.
Nolan Gray
It's an ongoing process. There are always new problems in materials sciences to take a crack at. Being able to do more faster requires more powerful computers. This brings down the cost so that more work can get done that otherwise would not have been optimized or attempted at all.
It's extremely important for industry to remain competitive.
Brandon Young
Proteing folding models.
Isaiah Brown
Thanks, way more informative than 10 minutes on google.
Nathan Parker
Quantum Computing is a fucking meme.
Never going to be useful
Eli Taylor
Also, in this case, a big part is removing dependence on american products for these things to avoid industrial tampering and embargoes. For instance, the US doesn't like people simulating nukes, so they might ban exports of certain chips to you if that's what they think you use them for. If China has its own chip design and its own fabs, the US can do little to stop them.
Gavin Torres
Not unless they make some major breakthrough. Also, the D-wave thing is not a general purpose quantum processor. It's made for a specific problem. Unless they make the required breakthroughs, quantum computing will be limited to extremely expensive special purpose devices that only solve one specific problem.
Oliver Miller
Who cares gooks still have 2 inch micropenises
Connor Brooks
>muuh penis meme
Well, BBCs are cucking you hard.
Wyatt Adams
>BBCs are cucking you hard
But that's wrong you fucking shitskin/gook or whatever you are
Jordan Rodriguez
>Carl Sagan +1
Jayden Hernandez
>Greece >being this much in denial
I guess paying debts too hard, will also fuck you up mentally.
John Kelly
Meanwhile Europe and America is being flooded by low iq shitskin migrants that are ruining their societies, national unity and economy.
China has had a 7% GDP growth for the last ten years. We can laugh at them now but in 10 years they will be strongest superpower in the world.
Right now they are the most powerfull country in Asian and they are strenghtening relations with Russia, India and Iran while modernizing their army and navy.
Korea and Japan and declining because of their low birth rates and therefore weakening economy which will allow China to expand massively.
Samuel Lopez
TINY
Blake Ortiz
I believe many US supercomputers are used for weather prediction and simulations. I'm not entirely sure what the Chinese will use theirs for.
>Also because we can
Camden Wood
muh dick
Isaac Fisher
How can Greeks even compete with Chang Longwang
Andrew Wright
It's the gooks who are insecure with their tiny dicks and are engaged in a dick measuring contest to compensate
tfw you are using the same logic trannies use to rationalise their degenerate behaviour
Camden Johnson
Fillipinos lust after white dick so hard its scary.
Chinese do too.
Ethan Williams
>>I'm not entirely sure what the Chinese will use theirs for. Brute forcing hashes and cryptographic keys. Missile trajectory. Or perhaps a measurement of my penis!
Isaac King
>Or perhaps a measurement of my penis!
it may be a supercomputer but that doesn't mean it can divide by zero.