US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers (computerworld.com) 59
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: The U.S. believes it will be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers -- costing roughly $200 to $300 million each -- by 2019. The two systems will be built at the same time and be ready for use by 2023, although it's possible one of the systems could be ready a year earlier, according to U.S. Department of Energy officials. The U.S. will award the exascale contracts to vendors with two different architectures. But the scientists and vendors developing exascale systems do not yet know whether President-Elect Donald Trump's administration will change directions. The incoming administration is a wild card. Supercomputing wasn't a topic during the campaign, and Trump's dismissal of climate change as a hoax, in particular, has researchers nervous that science funding may suffer. At the annual supercomputing conference SC16 last week in Salt Lake City, a panel of government scientists outlined the exascale strategy developed by President Barack Obama's administration. When the session was opened to questions, the first two were about Trump. One attendee quipped that "pointed-head geeks are not going to be well appreciated."
Re: Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These! (Score:2, Funny)
Where does lame duck come from?
Mallard Fillmore
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Trump supports everything that is BIG LEAUGE and puts AMERICA FIRST.
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Trump supports everything that is BIG LEAUGE and puts AMERICA FIRST.
He has awfully small hands though...
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He has awfully small hands though...
Yeah, but his kid Barron can build it. That kid is so good with the cyber.
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Re:Does Trump even "believe in" Super Computing? (Score:4, Insightful)
The scientists need to learn how to play the political game.
How to get your funding cut: "This computer is for climate modeling."
How to get your funding increased: "This computer is for nuclear warhead design validation."
They can go back to "climate" in 2018 if the Democrats win the mid-terms.
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A new deep bunker busting design. A surgical nuclear first strike can be designed if the super computer power is upgraded.
Decades of jobs for contractors to design, create, hide the testing and produce new systems
Trump CRAVES exascale. It's HUGE! (Score:2)
If you were going to describe Trump's personality in 3 words, one of those words would have to be "huge". Trump has a passion for the oversized, overdone, magnificent - anything bigger and more lavish than the other guy. It should be easy to sell Trump in "the biggest, fastest computers ever built", if the people selling him on it have any understanding of who they are talking to.
His dad bought two-story apartment buildings, Trump builds skyscrapers, with gold-plated fixtures. Some rich guys have a Lee
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Some rich guys have a Leer jet, Trump has a private airliner.
I'm pretty sure that in Trump's case it's a leer jet.
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Take that strawman you invented in your head!
If only Aaron Sorkin wasn't still detoxing from all that Xanax he took after the election. You could be writing 10 minute long self-indulgent monologues for his next failed cable show.
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I think given the context it's fair to assume the "pointed-headed geek" commenter was a "pointy-headed geek". That is, it was a reference to the way Trump would presumably consider people like them.
Not a problem, however. When Trump asks about "Exascale", just tell him it means these things are going to be YUUUUGE, and he'll sign off.
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Yes AC.
Less wars globally. More jobs in the USA for people from the USA. Less tax so you get to keep your wage and spend it on things you want or need.
Less big gov and hidden no bid contractors, less debt to service. Educational standards so the only the very best and brightest in the USA can get into the best US universities again.
Pass a real exam and secure a place at a really great campus. Pay your tuition o
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Pass a real exam and secure a place at a really great campus. Pay your tuition or get a scholarship but the skills will be real. Study with only the very best and get a great education.
Hey, you copied that right out of the Trump University brochure!
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...antisocial nerds.
I understand what you mean (I think), but I think we need to clarify this point: nerds are, possibly, asocial, but not generally anti-social. "Asocial" meaning "not social/sociable", which describes most of us who are more interested in technology and science than in socialising, and "anti-social" meaning "against (or even hostile to) social order and -connections", which I doubt many of us really are - it is something we normally associate with psychopaths.
When you say America will be great again, do you mean America will be great for everyone except nerds?
Hey, take a rough guess. When someone like Trump
You need to speak trump to trump. (Score:3)
Just tell him that they can use em to save his irish golf course and bob's your uncle.
But will they run Linux? (Score:3, Informative)
Special software (Score:2)
Not to worry, I have the solution! (Score:3)
Don't think of Trump's Mexico wall as 35 feet high and 1000 miles long. It's 240 RUs tall by 5.5 milllion rack widths long.
But will it run Crisis at max settings? (Score:2)
Triple 4K monitors layout with Star Citizen/Battlefield 1? I've been so busy adult'ing this past decade I've not been keeping up.
I just realized my core machine is nearly 7-8 years old and the last time I threw a new video card at it was one that was already 3-4 generations out of date and that was 4 years ago. :'( Time to start spec'ing out a new box.
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I've been so busy adult'ing this past decade I've not been keeping up.
Yeah. That's a hell of a realization isn't it? I had the same one a couple years ago when my son asked me to help him build a computer.
Son: "Dad, whats a good video card?"
Me: "..."
Son: "..."
Me: "Hell idk, I haven't bought one in 5 years"
Son: "... Thanks. I'll just Google it."
Me: "You'll make a good IT guy."
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Re: Goodbye encryption? (Score:1)
it could do it faster. how about bitcoin mining also ;)
Their names will be... (Score:3)
Guardian and Colossus...
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Of course I "get it" Dr. Forbin.
I know nobody will read this (Score:1)
I know nobody will read this but I'm going to vent anyways.
We had an entire week devoted to the cutting edge of computing power, http://sc16.supercomputing.org/
Not only has there only been one article (at least that I've seen) about it, this one only has small amount of comments.
Now I realize the actual conference doesn't directly apply to most people because the scale and capabilities are things they can't even fathom. And I also know that many things are just incremental improvements and evolution.
But com
Murica! (Score:1)