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US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: The U.S. believes it will be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers -- costing roughly $200 to $300 million each -- by 2019. The two systems will be built at the same time and be ready for use by 2023, although it's possible one of the systems could be ready a year earlier, according to U.S. Department of Energy officials. The U.S. will award the exascale contracts to vendors with two different architectures. But the scientists and vendors developing exascale systems do not yet know whether President-Elect Donald Trump's administration will change directions. The incoming administration is a wild card. Supercomputing wasn't a topic during the campaign, and Trump's dismissal of climate change as a hoax, in particular, has researchers nervous that science funding may suffer. At the annual supercomputing conference SC16 last week in Salt Lake City, a panel of government scientists outlined the exascale strategy developed by President Barack Obama's administration. When the session was opened to questions, the first two were about Trump. One attendee quipped that "pointed-head geeks are not going to be well appreciated."
Trump supports everything that is BIG LEAUGE and puts AMERICA FIRST.
Trump supports everything that is BIG LEAUGE and puts AMERICA FIRST.
He has awfully small hands though...
Just tell him that they can use em to save his irish golf course and bob's your uncle.
The scientists need to learn how to play the political game.
How to get your funding cut: "This computer is for climate modeling."
How to get your funding increased: "This computer is for nuclear warhead design validation."
They can go back to "climate" in 2018 if the Democrats win the mid-terms.
I think given the context it's fair to assume the "pointed-headed geek" commenter was a "pointy-headed geek". That is, it was a reference to the way Trump would presumably consider people like them.
Not a problem, however. When Trump asks about "Exascale", just tell him it means these things are going to be YUUUUGE, and he'll sign off.
It's a fair guess that they will run Linux as the kernel on their supercomputers since Linux is on around 99.6% on all supercomputers in the world but it may be possible that other parties are lobbying behind the scenes.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Re "This computer is for nuclear warhead design validation." :)
A new deep bunker busting design. A surgical nuclear first strike can be designed if the super computer power is upgraded.
Decades of jobs for contractors to design, create, hide the testing and produce new systems
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
He has awfully small hands though...
Yeah, but his kid Barron can build it. That kid is so good with the cyber.
Where does lame duck come from?
Mallard Fillmore
You're obviously too lazy to look up "lame duck" at wikipedia, where the origin is explained.
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If you were going to describe Trump's personality in 3 words, one of those words would have to be "huge". Trump has a passion for the oversized, overdone, magnificent - anything bigger and more lavish than the other guy. It should be easy to sell Trump in "the biggest, fastest computers ever built", if the people selling him on it have any understanding of who they are talking to.
His dad bought two-story apartment buildings, Trump builds skyscrapers, with gold-plated fixtures. Some rich guys have a Leer jet, Trump has a private airliner. Wanna sell Trump on a super computer? Just tell him it's going to be huge, magnificent, incredible. He can't help himself when something is incredible.
They gonna have special software to prove global warming is a hoax? Or are the religious nutjobs too stupid to realize these will prove thy're religious nutjobs?
Pass a real exam and secure a place at a really great campus. Pay your tuition or get a scholarship but the skills will be real. Study with only the very best and get a great education.
Hey, you copied that right out of the Trump University brochure!
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Just calmly inform the lard ass and chief that with these computers he will be able to make better decisions about how to get more money. He will then start a twitter war on these scientists/engineers that they're not putting everything they've got into the project, that they're losers for not having it built already.
Don't think of Trump's Mexico wall as 35 feet high and 1000 miles long. It's 240 RUs tall by 5.5 milllion rack widths long.
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Triple 4K monitors layout with Star Citizen/Battlefield 1? I've been so busy adult'ing this past decade I've not been keeping up.
I just realized my core machine is nearly 7-8 years old and the last time I threw a new video card at it was one that was already 3-4 generations out of date and that was 4 years ago. :'( Time to start spec'ing out a new box.
it could do it faster. how about bitcoin mining also ;)
...antisocial nerds.
I understand what you mean (I think), but I think we need to clarify this point: nerds are, possibly, asocial, but not generally anti-social. "Asocial" meaning "not social/sociable", which describes most of us who are more interested in technology and science than in socialising, and "anti-social" meaning "against (or even hostile to) social order and -connections", which I doubt many of us really are - it is something we normally associate with psychopaths.
When you say America will be great again, do you mean America will be great for everyone except nerds?
Hey, take a rough guess. When someone like Trump talks about "making America great again", it doesn't mean anything, really; they have this vague feeling that they are somehow not good enough, that everybody else looks down at them, and they want somehow to feel that they are great - Trump clearly imagines that he is a brilliant person who is unfairly being put upon, and he has decided that it is the fault of "them", where "them" happen to be Mexicans, the Chinese and other groups that have dared to criticise him. We have seen this happen over and over through history: intellectuals invariably end up being "the enemy of the state" because they tend to point out the obvious weak points in the plans of small-minded people, who have ended up in positions of power. And the don't come much smaller than Trump - as Ernest Rutherford would have said: he is an Euclidean point (that is, he has a position, but no magnitude).
Guardian and Colossus...
I know nobody will read this but I'm going to vent anyways.
We had an entire week devoted to the cutting edge of computing power, http://sc16.supercomputing.org/
Not only has there only been one article (at least that I've seen) about it, this one only has small amount of comments.
Now I realize the actual conference doesn't directly apply to most people because the scale and capabilities are things they can't even fathom. And I also know that many things are just incremental improvements and evolution.
But come on, things like 200Gb/s EDR Infiniband and SGI UV or at least stats like 8.17 gigaflops/watt or 93 petaflops should at least peak a true nerds interest if not make them wet themselves.
How many backdoors does a US supercomputer built on Chinese hardware come with standard?