Supercomputers To Move To Specialization?

lucasw writes "The Japan Earth Simulator outperformed a computer at Los Alamos (previously the world's fastest) by a factor of three while using fewer, more specialized processors and advanced interconnect technology. This spawned multiple government reports that many suspected would ask for more funding in the U.S. for custom supercomputer architectures and less emphasis on clustering commodity hardware. One report released yesterday suggests a balanced approach."

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Winning

[Steeltoe]

People see themselves as "winning", often when they trample on others. This is because of a mis-identification. People identify with THEIR OWN community, nationality, religion and other personal bias. Instead, if you identify with yourself being a human- or spiritual being, you will see that there are only other human beings around you. Not muslims, not christians, not japanese, not even lawyers.

America and UK is not really very secure. It doesn't help to have the best defence in the world, when you're acting like spoiled brats who decide for others what's "best for the world". America is supporting known terrorist groups worldwide, and have a history of occupying other nations for the worst reasons. Most international problems, America has generated for itself. It doesn't help to be so advanced and win, when you get the world to hate you.

It's all because of misidentification and ignorance. Especially in America, where people believe "USA is the world". Humility can be a hard lesson, one that is due for a long time "Over There".