U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
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Re: U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
#2Some non-paywalled information at Anandtech: PathForward: US Dept. of Energy Awards $258M in Research Contracts To Develop Exascale Supercomputer Technology [0]
[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11547/us-dept-of-energy-awards...
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#3Pennies.
Re: U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
#4They shoulda invested 256 million, woulda been more efficient.
Re: U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
#5top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 fatest supercomputers in the world also has more details on this [1]
> The PathForward program [...] address the four key challenges: parallelism, memory and storage, reliability and energy consumption
Energy consumption is becoming a very important challenge, as the article says, current petascale supercomputers consume "enough power to run a small town". Major efforts will need to be made to have Exascale supercomputers that don't consume the equivalent of 10^3 small towns.
[1] https://www.top500.org/news/doe-shells-out-258-million-to-si...
Re: U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
#6Competition is good. For research, The Cold War with Russia and the resulting "Space Race" was good. In Israel, they spend a much larger share of their national income on R&D, largely to develop technologies to defend themselves.
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#7That's like 1/5 the cost of one F35 Flying Turkey?
Re: U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
#8This is chump change, we should have invested $2.58 billion or more. China isn't taking half measures in their state's science and technology investments. They realize we're in a second cold war, just one where the two combatants have more economic interdependence. They are making investments like the ones that helped us win the last war.
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#9That's like 1/5 the cost of one F35 Flying Turkey?
Hahahha! Also roughly the price of just 2 Flying Raptors, which have the distinct honor of being nearly unfliable by even the most skilled pilots.
Re: U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
#10They shoulda invested 256 million, woulda been more efficient.
You mean $268,435,456?