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Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator

Posted by michael on from the first-random-tourist-that-they-had-ever-had dept.

eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."

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  1. Supersomputers for earth simulation are useless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's well known that the climatic and geostatic system of earth is highly chaotic - just think of Lorenz strange attractors and shallow water disturbanches. All high-level chaos theorists agree that the timespan for stable simulation is just 4 weeks - after that everything goes fucked up. So all this long term climate of continental shift simulation is just a scam. That's usually goverments to get hidden economic aid to struggling companies or to build up a legend to use the computers for other means.

    While in the US I would guess the use for NSA encryption espionage , for Japans I would rather guess the economic aid. Their economy as been fucked up for the last decade and no change is in sight. It's very plausible that they want to save their prime high-tech companies (NEC etc.) over the periods of economic despair.

    But don't let you fooled by this silly "scientific application" argument for supercomputers. These are just big toys for the goverments and nothing useful, unless you want to do some economic espionage etc.

  2. How come we've never heard of this? by KiahZero · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously, it seems pretty sweet just from reading the page. But how come we've never heard this mentioned before? Have I just missed all previous mentions, or did this so-called 'world's fastest supercomputer' just suddenly come to be out of nothingness? As for it being useful further than the immediate future, I call bullshit. Even today we still are lacking in the knowledge to make an accurate model of the Earth. We simply don't have all the information to break it all down into mathematical formulas (again, unless there was some monumental leap in human awareness that I missed).

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  3. Re:Reliability of its predictions by cadallin451 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not according the perception of the outside world. Consider our *expletive* retarded *expletive* pretend president, shrub.