China to Crack Supercomputer Top Ten List

jsse writes "ComputerWorld (Hong Kong) has an article about Chinese Academy of Sciences building a supercomputer which has been shown in benchmark tests to process up to 10 trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS) and is expected to take a spot on the list of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers for the first time. The computer is a cluster of 2,560 Opteron 800 series processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) contained in 640 nodes of four processors each. AMD has announced the project last year when the cluster was building."

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Re:Interesting

[turgid]

Where I come from "liberalism" means laissez faire (sp?) free market capitalism, "small state", low taxes, economic, religious and politcal freedom, free speech etc.

I think the parent poster was exposing himself as a right-wing American biggot, the mind who thinks George W. is a lilly-livered, soft, pinko commie and carries an automatic rifle everywhere "because it says so in the Constitution" to shoot towel-heads etc. if the need arises.

This place is so entertaining. You get to insult so many different kinds of people.

Re:Yes, there is a problem with China and nukes.

[Archibald Buttle]

History has shown that when a country is controlled by one person or an elite few, the distance to the sword in any situation is shortened.

Ironically this gives an explaination of sorts as to why the USA and Britain were so keen to go to war in Iraq. Both countries have political systems dominated by the few, where the guy at the top has too much power.

This is better demonstrated for the Iraq war by the UK than the USA where the majority of the population was against the war and didn't buy the lies they were being fed by the government, yet Blair sent the army in to Iraq anyway.