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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 20 2015, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the does-it-run-windows? dept.

Currently, the world's most powerful supercomputers can ramp up to more than a thousand trillion operations per second, or a petaflop. But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past. On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
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The development rate began tapering off around 2008. Between 2010 and 2013, aggregate increases ranged between 26 percent and 66 percent. And on this June's list, there was a mere 17 percent increase from last November.
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Despite the slowdown, many computational scientists expect performance to reach exascale, or more than a billion billion operations per second, by 2020.

Hmm, if they reach exascale computing will the weatherman finally be able to predict if it's going to rain this afternoon? Because he sucks at that now.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:31AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:31AM (#211683)

    The Chinese would have added nodes sooner if it weren't for the recent and wrongheaded export ban to their supercomputing centers. ... we did it because Tianhe is used for simulating nuclear weapons and explosions... just as our Department of Energy supercomputers do.

    how is trying to slow the advancement of nuclear weaponry wrongheaded? do you think anyone should have more deadly nuclear weapons?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:47AM (#211690)

    That's because you are dumb. Imagine yourself sitting next to North Korea (Pakistan, Israel, etc.)

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by http on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:49AM

    by http (1920) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:49AM (#211691)

    It's not wrong headed, but it also is absolutely not what's intended, or happening. It's a hypocritical excuse, as NRL still operates, and an irrelevant excuse, as China is boosting its domestic manufacture.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:35AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:35AM (#211841) Journal
    For two reasons. The first is that China has had nuclear weapons since the '60s. Any policy trying to prevent this should include buying big supercomputers for research into building a time machine. Second, because when you're talking about an economy the size of China, all that sanctions do is stimulate local growth. If the Chinese can't buy Intel chips, then they'll produce chips locally - it's not like they have a shortage of chip fabs or processor designers.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:48AM (#211843)

    how is trying to slow the advancement of nuclear weaponry wrongheaded?

    It's not the intent that's wrongheaded, it's the measure. It is wrongheaded in the same way as it is wrongheaded to try to stop a flood by setting the area you want to protect on fire, on the theory that the fire will stop the water.