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US debuts world's fastest supercomputer

TU Curmudgeon

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From the BBC

US debuts world's fastest supercomputer
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Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader.

The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, until now the world's most powerful machine, has a processing power of 93 petaflops.

Summit's initial uses will include areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.

COMMENT:-

Well done - but can it run Windows 10?
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TU Curmudgeon said:
From the BBC

US debuts world's fastest supercomputer
​

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader.

The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, until now the world's most powerful machine, has a processing power of 93 petaflops.

Summit's initial uses will include areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.

COMMENT:-

Well done - but can it run Windows 10?
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If is anything like the others I have worked with, yes, a virtual machine could be carved off to run almost any OS.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From the BBC

US debuts world's fastest supercomputer
​

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader.

The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, until now the world's most powerful machine, has a processing power of 93 petaflops.

Summit's initial uses will include areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.

COMMENT:-

Well done - but can it run Windows 10?
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To put it into perspective the human brain is capable of 38 petaflops per sec.

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TU Curmudgeon said:
From the BBC

US debuts world's fastest supercomputer
​

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader.

The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, until now the world's most powerful machine, has a processing power of 93 petaflops.

Summit's initial uses will include areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.

COMMENT:-

Well done - but can it run Windows 10?
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Still, China has more super-computers totaling more petaflops than ours have. Good chance they stole some of that technology from us. China’s ZTE, which Trump protected from “going under”, are expert at surveillance and telecommunication systems. ZTE sold surveillance system to Iran, which the US had a sanction against. The US said not to do that. They kept on with it after the warning. Trump let them go with a slap on the wrist. Good chance China stole tech from us for ZTE’s surveillance systems then used that equipment to steal more IP from the US. Oh well. ZTE promised they would be good boys from now on.
 
bluesmoke said:
Still, China has more super-computers totaling more petaflops than ours have. Good chance they stole some of that technology from us. China’s ZTE, which Trump protected from “going under”, are expert at surveillance and telecommunication systems. ZTE sold surveillance system to Iran, which the US had a sanction against. The US said not to do that. They kept on with it after the warning. Trump let them go with a slap on the wrist. Good chance China stole tech from us for ZTE’s surveillance systems then used that equipment to steal more IP from the US. Oh well. ZTE promised they would be good boys from now on.
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The TDS is strong with this one.
 
trouble13 said:
To put it into perspective the human brain is capable of 38 petaflops per sec.

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The human brain can’t really be measured in flops.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From the BBC

US debuts world's fastest supercomputer
​

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader.

The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, until now the world's most powerful machine, has a processing power of 93 petaflops.

Summit's initial uses will include areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.

COMMENT:-

Well done - but can it run Windows 10?
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But will it keep me from getting dozens of spam emails every day?
 
This is great and all, but chances are they'll use it to help spy on us more, so...
 
What is a petaflop??
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From the BBC

US debuts world's fastest supercomputer
​

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader.

The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, until now the world's most powerful machine, has a processing power of 93 petaflops.

Summit's initial uses will include areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology.

COMMENT:-

Well done - but can it run Windows 10?
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This is cool. How many posts before someone says something stupid and political?
 
Deuce said:
The human brain can’t really be measured in flops.
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Well it can do 38 thousand trillion calculations per sec a flop is equal to 1 thousand trillion

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holbritter said:
What is a petaflop??
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If I just typed the right numbers into the calculator - it's 60,000 times faster than my laptop bought in 2017, which makes that supercomputer roughly 13mil x faster than my laptop.
 
trouble13 said:
Well it can do 38 thousand trillion calculations per sec a flop is equal to 1 thousand trillion

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No it can't.

When people try to estimate brainpower in FLOPs, its like trying to measure the radiation output of the sun in mosquitoes per second. We can try and come up with rough equivalents but its hackey at best. Example: the human brain is really, really good at image processing. So you can try and fit that to how much math a computer has to do to process an image. But our brains aren't doing math to process an image, they don't really work that way. Computers are bad at image processing so do a crapload of math to try it out and still screw it up, so does that mean our brains are fantastic at math?

Put it this way: measuring the human brain's capacity in math output requires you to put a number to how many math calculations per second is required for feeling hunger, love, sadness, or annoyance.

How many math problems can you do in one second? Because I bet its not trillions!

Another example of why it's weird to measure brain capacity in FLOPS: other people put the number as around an exaflop. Two hundred times the estimate you have. There's a wild disparity because there's not really a good way to compare these things.
 
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trouble13 said:
Well it can do 38 thousand trillion calculations per sec a flop is equal to 1 thousand trillion

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Are you sure about that?

"In contrast, our miraculous brains operate on the next order higher. Although it is impossible to precisely calculate, it is postulated that the*human brain operates*at*1 exaFLOP,*which is equivalent to a billion billion calculations per second."

https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/the-human-brain-vs-supercomputers-which-one-wins.html
 
MateoMtnClimber said:
This is cool. How many posts before someone says something stupid and political?
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Ooh wait, I can answer that, because it is MEEEE!!!!

Great news, can this computer solve the problems the veterans affair office has? Because having super computers is all nice and very important I am sure, but can it do real world solutions to very complex problems.

Great computers a good thing and the importance is that the free world has to have at least as much computing powers as undemocratic and possibly nefarious regimes, but personally I would hope that this computer would be used for peaceful things like solving medical problems like cancer and hereditary diseases. You know really good stuff but I am afraid this computer will become yet one more thing that gets weaponized or politicized because that is what politicians are very good at.

But I do congratulate the inventors of this machine, great work people it is a great invention and achievement to create such a mega fast computer.
 
Taylor said:
The TDS is strong with this one.
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Ffffunny! However, not too many deranged people make statements containing only facts or scenarios based on fact. In this case, my scenario is based on Trump’s own allegation, and many others, that China has for a long time, and still does, steal US IP and my concluding what that IP would, to China, preferably be. Like surveillance equipment and telecom IP. Putting most kidding aside, what facts do you have that contradict my facts and/or what I’m saying?
 
MateoMtnClimber said:
Deuce debunked it way better than I did.
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Seems like a petty thing to squabble over so I will concede the point. It does not change the fact that it's processing power is about 8x that of a human brain.

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trouble13 said:
Seems like a petty thing to squabble over so I will concede the point. It does not change the fact that it's processing power is about 8x that of a human brain.

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Seems more like it's better at certain specific things than the human brain, but as others pointed out, it's not at everything the human brain can do.

A specialist, rather than a generalist.
 
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