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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."
they're saving that one to be #1
I think maybe we should hold off on asking it "why 42?"
This is probably the intended use :)
If they could just smooth over the human rights people
As you can see, this is nothing new for China.
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
Would the Chinese need a computer capable of running Longhorn?
Oh well, More power to them!
Beings aspergers AND pulling chicks... I enjoy the challenge!
[Insert unecessary comparison between this and the G5 cluster at Virginia Tech].
Now the chinese can caluclate how many communists it really takes to screw in a lightbulb....
(my estimate is the entire chinese population, because if only one person screws it in, then that's just not sharing with others, is it?)
Man, I can't stand it when that list goes down from beeing hax0red...
global warming has significantly increased
Yeah, Australia's always got things wrong. I hear your toilet water doesn't even swirl the right way.
I see the mods have a sense of Funny.
Yeah....but all the chips were made at AMDs CHINA plant.
They are probably using it for web-filtering :)
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