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[nenjin]

They should upgrade the ritual to watching all creepy/mindfuck movies and series about a single room. Cause there's a lot of them now.

[redwallzyl]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/30/427727355/obama-orders-development-of-supercomputer-to-rival-chinas-milky-way

"The executive order, issued by Obama on Wednesday, would set up a body known as the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to research and build what is hoped to become the first machine to hit 1 exaflop, equivalent to 1,000 petaflops."

that's a lot of flops. looks like its the computer race this time instead of the space race.

[hops]

Everybody do the flop!

* Cinder flops

[Spehss _]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/30/427727355/obama-orders-development-of-supercomputer-to-rival-chinas-milky-way

"The executive order, issued by Obama on Wednesday, would set up a body known as the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to research and build what is hoped to become the first machine to hit 1 exaflop, equivalent to 1,000 petaflops."

that's a lot of flops. looks like its the computer race this time instead of the space race.

Apparently a flops = FLoating point Operations Per Second. So an exaflop would be 1000 petaflops which is 1000 teraflops which is 1000 gigaflops, and etc etc. That's a shit ton of flopping.

[Lord Shonus]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/30/427727355/obama-orders-development-of-supercomputer-to-rival-chinas-milky-way

"The executive order, issued by Obama on Wednesday, would set up a body known as the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to research and build what is hoped to become the first machine to hit 1 exaflop, equivalent to 1,000 petaflops."

that's a lot of flops. looks like its the computer race this time instead of the space race.

Apparently a flops = FLoating point Operations Per Second. So an exaflop would be 1000 petaflops which is 1000 teraflops which is 1000 gigaflops, and etc etc. That's a shit ton of flopping.

For comparison, a Intel Core i7 980 XE 6 core processor (one of the most powerful chips you can buy) is 109 gigaflops - the goal is thus a computer 10,000,000x as powerful. Given the amount of number crunching needed for so many modern scientific projects, having the title of "most powerful supercomputer" is a pretty important advantage to a country.

[Spehss _]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/30/427727355/obama-orders-development-of-supercomputer-to-rival-chinas-milky-way

"The executive order, issued by Obama on Wednesday, would set up a body known as the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to research and build what is hoped to become the first machine to hit 1 exaflop, equivalent to 1,000 petaflops."

that's a lot of flops. looks like its the computer race this time instead of the space race.

Apparently a flops = FLoating point Operations Per Second. So an exaflop would be 1000 petaflops which is 1000 teraflops which is 1000 gigaflops, and etc etc. That's a shit ton of flopping.

For comparison, a Intel Core i7 980 XE 6 core processor (one of the most powerful chips you can buy) is 109 gigaflops - the goal is thus a computer 10,000,000x as powerful. Given the amount of number crunching needed for so many modern scientific projects, having the title of "most powerful supercomputer" is a pretty important advantage to a country.

Clearly developing a supercomputer of such speed will be the first step towards the coming of super-intelligent AI and the singularity.  It's only a matter of years now.

[nenjin]

After a certain amount of processing power, "World's fastest computer" starts to seem like "World's tallest building."

[Tack]

They should upgrade the ritual to watching all creepy/mindfuck movies and series about a single room. Cause there's a lot of them now.

I don't think 'The room' is even about a room.
It's been voted worst movie of all time though.

[Yoink]

So we had an earthquake here the other day, which is in itself really fucking weird. The side of my room/my bed started rattling like crazy, and I just put it down to issues with the plumbing in the house I'm staying and ignored it 'til it stopped. It wasn't until later that I learned it was an earthquake.

Anyway, just now we had what I assume was an aftershock. It was at the same time of day and everything... except this time I was still asleep.
The shaking merged with the awful nightmare I was already having, I wound up thrashing around in fear and I may have even yelled out/screamed as I woke up. I hope not.

That was even worse than the vivid dream I had earlier about being strangled. WTF indeed.

[flabort]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/30/427727355/obama-orders-development-of-supercomputer-to-rival-chinas-milky-way

"The executive order, issued by Obama on Wednesday, would set up a body known as the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to research and build what is hoped to become the first machine to hit 1 exaflop, equivalent to 1,000 petaflops."

that's a lot of flops. looks like its the computer race this time instead of the space race.

Apparently a flops = FLoating point Operations Per Second. So an exaflop would be 1000 petaflops which is 1000 teraflops which is 1000 gigaflops, and etc etc. That's a shit ton of flopping.

For comparison, a Intel Core i7 980 XE 6 core processor (one of the most powerful chips you can buy) is 109 gigaflops - the goal is thus a computer 10,000,000x as powerful. Given the amount of number crunching needed for so many modern scientific projects, having the title of "most powerful supercomputer" is a pretty important advantage to a country.

Clearly developing a supercomputer of such speed will be the first step towards the coming of super-intelligent AI and the singularity.  It's only a matter of years now.

I think in order to actually make use of all those calculations, they'd need some place to store the data generated by the number-crunching. Which means that's going to be one big-ass hard drive, too. Is Obama planning on borrowing the Superman Crystal? His computer would be fast enough to actually get data in and out of it at a meaningful speed...

[Lord Shonus]

After a certain amount of processing power, "World's fastest computer" starts to seem like "World's tallest building."

Hardly - look at the computing power needed for the LHC, and that's just ONE of the super-science programs going on right now. Sure, you can use distributed computing for a lot of it, but a single machine is both more secure and in some cases more efficient.

[Orange Wizard]

It's possible to get arbitrarily "fast" processing by smooshing together an arbitrarily large number of bog-standard processors.
Inb4 some dumbass CEO decides that's the way to go and everybody laughs at him for being a dumbass.

[LordSlowpoke]

isn't that what people just... do

i sure hope you're not the kind of guy that thinks they actually design and build one single processor chugging along at gorillionflops/s and the rest of the computer is just its cooling system or something

[Orange Wizard]

To be fair, it would be amazing for playing DF.

[Rolan7]

Pretty sure DF can't use more than two processors, and one of them can only handle the "display".