jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yeah, I heard about that last week. The "fastest" keeps traveling from country to country. Quantum computing will blow everything away.

I'm surprised that they use "flop" as an indication of success.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

When do they come out with a laptop version"

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

When will they come out with a laptop version?

Jack47 Loc: Ontario

I’ll take two please🤣🤣🤣

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I had one, but my Better Half made me sell it. She said that I was spending too much time on the internet searching for....you know...😜

srg

Yeah. But can it run Photoshop?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

The Top 500 list is updated twice a year and changes pretty frequently. The number one spot has alternated between the US, Japan and China for years, but the US has generally had about half the machines in the top ten. As a generalization, the last big Chinese machines have used a lot more cores for equivalent performance and been very power hungry (there’s often a substation next to a supercomputer installation). In the US, Oak Ridge (ORNL), Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) and more recently Argonne National Labs, have been the “big 3” in the US and at/near the top of the list, and will all be Exascale machines (> 1 ExaFlop). All of these are funded by DOE (Dept. Of Energy). To put the growth of high performance computing in perspective, I sold the storage and was on the team that assembled one of the first PetaFlop machines (at Argonne National labs) about a dozen years ago, and now we are at 1000x that performance, assisted greatly by the advent and use of GPUs from either NVidia or AMD. Also, ten years ago, IBM dominated this space with Blue Gene machines, but now HP Enterprise (HPE) has teamed up with Cray and is dominating the HPC landscape in the U.S.
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/

Regarding Quantum computing, which is still in its infancy, the goals are multiplying the number of useful Qbits (100 Qbits is a big machine) and reducing errors, which is a big problem. Unlike conventional Von Neumann architectures, computing errors seem to be an intrinsic part of quantum computing, but new architectures are reducing them. Quantum computers are very good at certain types of operations such as optimizations and encryptions/probability, but not all, so I see them supplementing conventional computing for certain tasks, but not replacing them. Hell, they don’t even run Photoshop (yet)

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

I wonder if I can get one to back up my images?

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Other than the game Thermonuclear Warfare , what types of operations do these big computers do?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Nuclear Weapons research/modeling, plasma, astrophysics, quantum/subatomic physics, drug/cancer and weather modeling/research are some of the more popular uses. Even Formula 1 racing teams use supercomputers (and the amount of time each team is allocated is governed by the rules).

Just to add, supercomputers have changed the way we do all sorts of science. Rather than the old method of hypothesis/experiment and repeat, we can now just model all the possibilities and choose the winner.

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

No. But they could probably have the one we left in Afghanistan.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

So bridges, is this idea something you just thought of or did you write the script for the Terminator movies? Ha! Just giving you a hard time.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

We've come a long way from EMERAC.

Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca

It means IRS will be able to calculate how much you own them, doesn’t mean they’ll reimburse faster

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

As far as I can tell, the IRS is still using an abacus. Last year I filed on time in April and received my (small) refund in late December. My son filed his a little late in May, and just got his refund a year later last month.