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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."
An article about a supercomputer and it's performance, and only 1 or 2 comments that are not snarky or bitchin about something. Just go back and read them. Total waste of a person's time, like most comments in most articles. I'm turning in my Karma and password. See ya.
If I didn't have absolutely NOTHING to do, I wouldn't be here.
In related news, Republicans announce massive new cuts to US science research and computer analysis projects, in order to give new tax breaks to wealthy billionaires who offshore US jobs to china.
Is there any doubt any more that Republicans are traitors, owned by globalist corporations which hold no allegiance whatsoever to the US and view common people as things to be exploited to enrich themselves, and have done all they can to undermine the US;s basic critical public investments in its science and education capabilities, as well as our investments in training new scientists, and even health care and rehabilitative services so we are not leaving our own people to die on the street? Republicans are more than willing to offer up the poor and decimate essential public investments in science to give more tax breaks to bloated billionaires who make their riches by destroying this country and its industry and massive human exploiitation and abuse.
The US is a failing country because corporate elites have decided they no longer need the US and the American people are buying into the lies of the fascist Republicans whose entire agenda and every policy is designed to hurt americans, to destroy our countries ability to fund its needs, to give more tax breaks to billionaires who are destroying our jobs to enrich themselves at our expense. Their systematic attcks on unions and our education system is designed to leave the people of this country with no voice and with no rights. To reverse this, we need to increase taxes on the wealthiest elites and invest it back into this countries infrastructure, reducing income inequality and putting more money back into the middle class, who need to be employed to build the countries future. Republicans worship and give tax breaks to bankers and wall street types who make their money as parasites and adding nothing of value, and take millions of dollars, than attack teachers and firefighters who earn average, middle class wages and whose services could not be more critical and valuable. Unless something enriches wealthy billionaires republicans want to get rid of it, and what we see is reverse income redistribution where money is being taken from the middle class and being given to an ever bloated wealthy elite who seem to think they should be able to exploit workers and control and own everything in this country, to enrich themselves with profits gained by further impoverishing workers.
Until we can reinvigorate unions, renew our comiitment to public education and make college education a universal option, invest in new energy infrastructure to get us off oil and onto renewable energy, invest heavily in NASA and science and cut the defence spending, and move health care from the for profit insurance system to a France type universal health care system which provides better quality for half the cost, and publicly invest in our people, such as rehabilitation and aid to help make sure children are well fed and grow up to be healthy and smart, and that we are not allowing our people who have been laid off by offshoring billionaires to die on the street, the US will continue its downward slide.