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Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the teraflops-to-spare dept.

nanotrends writes "Steve Chen was the principal designer of the Cray X-MP supercomputer. He recently created multi-teraflop blade based supercomputers for a Chinese company. He is now creating a supercomputer grid across China and he is working on a bio-supercomputer extension to human brains called THIRD-BRAIN. The THIRD-BRAIN project has significant 3 year and 5 year targets."

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  1. grid of China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    >He is now creating a supercomputer grid across China

    Can you see it from space?

  2. I certainly hope this plan is actually reasonable. by neoshroom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't. From the article, the guy right now has nothing and plans to implement what the entire AI field has been trying to do for years and years. He doesn't mention any new or innovative techinques he is applying to the problem -- only a boatload of unfounded confidence.

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