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Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science
gupg writes "When China built the world's fastest supercomputer based on NVIDIA GPUs last year, a lot of naysayers said this was just a stunt machine. Well, guess what — here comes the science! They are working on better material for solar panels and they ran the world's fastest simulation ever. NVIDIA (whose GPUs accelerate these applications as a co-processor) blogged on this a while ago, where they talk about how the US really needs to up its investment in high performance computing."
you dont know too much about Teachers Unions and have been listening to far too much Republican bullshit. Teachers unions for years have fought for better education funding, better materials for their children. The fact is teachers are being paid far less in the US than they are in Japan. If teachers are being asked to do far more, at least we should pay them similar to what they are paid in other advanced countries. Look. Republicans whine and complain about teachers pay but then they give tax breaks to billionaires who exploit workers and destroy jobs.Teachers work hard and are far more valuable than some bankster, corporate elitists, etc. It is disgusting, Republicans purely sefish, greedy behaviour which is a crass display of all of the worst and most irresponsible and self centered behaviour. We punish those in society who are dedicated to serving the public, everyone rich or poor, and then reward those who enrich themselves from stealing from the commoners. Republicans and the conservatives are authoritarian fascists who are driven purely by greed, arrogance and cruelty and that is their entire ethos. Its time to restore altruism, compassion, decency and unselfishness to this society, where people serve the common good is seen as a noble trait, rather than selfishly acting to enrich themselves.