China Builds Most Powerful Computer

[Spider-Aziz]

Man, the lounge has more depressing threads than I like.
Here's something good for a change, provided by Fallen Angel.

China builds world's most powerful computer http://bbc.in/28Jj1ln

The 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi.
At its peak, the computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second.
It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500 which released the new list on Monday.
Its main applications include advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting and big data analytics, wrote Jack Dongarra in a paper about the new machine.
It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.

I don't use Linux, but I like the idea of programming using that OS, and admire it.

 

[clarkkent]

The bigger the computer the more powerful right?

 

[KevanG]

They will be using it to hack into everyones email and send their bosses naughty photos.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Victarion]

Lol thats a commodore 64.

 

[Evelisse]

cool, just never forget to hook up the doll

 

[Silvermoth]

Does it know that the meaning of life is 42?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

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[Spider-Aziz]

Different colors + dancing = Computer advertisement Power Rangers.

It's possible that 10 years from now, this computer components ends up then to be like that computer in the gif you posted is to us now; antiquated.
But I guess it's better to build a powerful one now than making another shortly after, and it's not hard to upgrade computers.