Well china officially knocked US down from the supercomputer throne.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/te...html?ref=world
And I thought china might never catch up to US in terms of technology.
Chinese Supercomputer Wrests Title From U.S.
Well china officially knocked US down from the supercomputer throne.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/te...html?ref=world
And I thought china might never catch up to US in terms of technology.
Vicarius Provinciae
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China will grow larger.
Domesticus
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USA didn't spam enough particle cannons, clearly.
In all seriousness though, this computer will probably be "blown out of the water" in the next 6 months anyways. I think we should stop focusing on who can build the fastest computer that takes up the area of a basketball court, and instead focus on who can build the first quantum computer with the same computing power that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Triggering
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I think we are getting to a point where the real question is who can write the software that makes such power even matter.
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Civitate
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Originally Posted by Phier
There are already plenty of software applications that can still tax the greatest super computer we can build to the point where we need every bit of processing power as a species. Hence the rise of distributed computing for things like protein folding: http://folding.stanford.edu/
There are already a wide range of applications of this nature from the important like the above to the more whimsical.
While not 'sexy' like video games, as much processing power as humanity can produce technologically there are already important applications that use every bit of that processing power. Software is not issue for anything but entertainment.
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Triggering
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Brute force computing, yes, but its just not terribly impressive anymore.
"When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like Fidel Castro, not screaming in terror, like his victims."
My shameful truth.
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is it skynet?
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Not yet.
Comes Domesticorum
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Don't worry, even it is Skynet China has enough population to overrun all terminators Skynet can produce.
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is it the zapp brannigan strategy of sending as many troops to die until the killbots reach their preprogrammed kill limit?Don't worry, even it is Skynet China has enough population to overrun all terminators Skynet can produce.
Campidoctor
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What do you want to bet?
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On a more positive note, I expect it will run Shogun II awesomely.
ز آفتاب درخشان ستاره می
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Building the Chinese empire
Now Is Not the Time
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So... it's a computer pissing contest over some of the most trivial of things?
Comes Limitis
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Something that Americans makes a big deal of whenever they actually win the contest.
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i can tell you the answer without you guys having to build a supercomputer;
it's 42, innit?
in related news, scientists have decided to ask the new supercomputer its first problem:
how much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Primicerius
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Gotta waste time and money on somthing
Leave it to the modder to perfect the works of the paid developers for no profit at all.
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indeed, Thinking Machines that can help us solve mathematical equations, design new cures for diseases, predict probabilities and aid in surveying and prospecting to name just a few.
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will this computer be able to run Crysis 2?
Comes Domesticorum
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Well, as long as it is under Mars Mechanism's guideline of what an acceptable AI is I have no problem of it.
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better yet, will the AI development by this supercomputer be good enough to give you a real game of M2:TW?will this computer be able to run Crysis 2?
just make sure it aint corrupted by ChaosWell, as long as it is under Mars Mechanism's guideline of what an acceptable AI is I have no problem of it.!!!!!!
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