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2022-05-31 Science & Technology

Battle of the supercomputing titans: US's Frontier overtakes Japan's Fugaku to become fastest in the world – breaking the 'exascale barrier' for the first time

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-31 08:40|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 AMD and Cray - Two American based companies.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-31 09:33|| 2022-05-31 09:33|| Front Page Top

#2 My only question is why is it named Skynet?

Posted by DarthVader 2022-05-31 09:36|| 2022-05-31 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 (Very) former supercomputer champs long-eclipsed by the $300 smart phone in my pocket.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-05-31 09:45|| 2022-05-31 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Good for HPE but they still need China to build laptops for them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-31 12:59|| 2022-05-31 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Shame they can't do the cancer genome mutations instead of modeling nuke bombs.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-31 15:11|| 2022-05-31 15:11|| Front Page Top

#6 The hardware can do whatever the software instructs. ORNL does lots of stuff besides nuke explosion simulations, but I don't think cancer genetic modeling is part of their portfolio.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-31 15:20|| 2022-05-31 15:20|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 - ever try FoldingatHome?

When the PS3 came out someone discovered the power of those systems linked together could help when you're not using them. Also because of that, the PS3 was banned for certain countries which might be interested in such computer power. On September 16, 2007, due in large part to the participation of PlayStation 3 consoles, the Folding@home project officially attained a sustained performance level higher than one native petaFLOPS, becoming the first computing system of any kind to do so. Originally, players were recruited for folding proteins on their system in cancer research. Now its been expanded to cover additional systems and venues.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-31 16:48|| 2022-05-31 16:48|| Front Page Top

#8 #5 Shame they can't do the cancer genome mutations instead of modeling nuke bombs.

I second that whole heartedly.

Posted by Whanter Clese9689 2022-05-31 18:41|| 2022-05-31 18:41|| Front Page Top

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