Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors

dcblogs writes "The Russians are building a 10-petaflop supercomputer as part of a goal to build an exascale system by 2018-20, in the same timeframe as the US. The Russians, as well as Europe and China, want to reduce reliance on U.S. tech vendors and believe that exascale system development will lead to breakthroughs that could seed new tech industries. 'Exascale computing is a challenge, and indeed an opportunity for Europe to become a global HPC leader,' said Leonardo Flores Anover, who is the European Commission's project officer for the European Exascale Software Initiative. 'The goal is to foster the development of a European industrial capability,' he said. Think what Europe accomplished with Airbus. For Russia: 'You can expect to see Russia holding its own in the exascale race with little or no dependence on foreign manufacturers,' said Mike Bernhardt, who writes The Exascale Report. For now, Russia is relying on Intel and Nvidia."

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Re:Industrial Espionage.

[Frosty Piss]

Do what the Chinese do and copy the hell out of Nvidia and Intel.

China has a tremendous skill-set that while works very well for reverse engineering and building things, does not work so well where free-thinking innovation are needed to make advances. The Russians have these abilities, and will be able to develop their own ideas where the Chinese can only copy.

An Russian developed and built all-purpose computing chip on the consumer market could be quite the interesting thing... But the Chinese will always be copying Intel and nVidia (and soon some Russian company).