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China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer
shmG writes "China has replaced the United States as the maker of the world's fastest supercomputer. A Chinese research center has made the world's faster super computer — named as Tianhe-1A, which was released at a national conference on high-performance computers (HPC) in China. Made at a cost of over $88 million, Tianhe-1A is theoretically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) at peak speed. Tianhe-1A 's peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops (1,000 teraflops is equal to one petaflop) on the Linpack benchmark."
The time for "supercomputers" is long past. This is just muscle-play that does not mean anything. The fetish of having a "supercomputer" seems to be a left-over from the times when computers were very slow and almost nobody had one. Or maybe politicians (and journalists) are still living in those times...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'm starting to really worry about America. Your fine country was such a great example of capitalism in action, and now it turns out that you were living a big lie. Who'd have thunk it? The clue was in the way you relentlessly stole from other countries and imposed your will around the world by waging war, usually by proxy. Oh well, it's pretty obvious that you won't get much sympathy from the rest of us as you disappear down the toilet bowl of history - lol! x)
Log on Then the not so 3ad. To the A super-organised
It's what the Chinese do, they create nothing (except toxic toys and cheap labor) and take credit for everything!
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
But, but, we have health care!
Yeah they sure eat up that propaganda, they remind me of the americans I've worked with over the years.