You are right, developing supercomputer is expensive. I think it's better to use "burn" instead of "waste" in your comments.
Frankly, up until this moment, I don't quite understand (mostly because of the tech content) why you feel so excited when you are talking about Tianhe-I in the first place.
Canada do have some supercomputers. The technology is always there, but due to budget, like British, we usually borrow the mainframe from other countries or sharing between different organizations.
To me, if China can build something like the CERN, it will be very interesting to see.
You are right, developing supercomputer is expensive. I think it's better to use "b ...
lo_pak 發表於 2011-6-20 15:02
hahaha, you need to understand that the Chinese are putting their own CPUs into their own laptops, computers and even supercomputers. The Chinese are now challenging the American monopoly in CPU market.
In the future, the Chinese no longer need to spend cash on American CPUs, with the potential of selling Chinese CPUs to other countries, thereby making money. Isn't that exciting?
The Japanese still can't make their own CPUs for their own supercomputers, so they need to use American products.
'K' use 68,544 pcs SPARC 64 VIIIfx processor. It is made by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. (base on Sun Microsystems SPARC design standard). SPARC 64 VIIIfx is capable of 128 billion floating point operations per second.