In defense of supercomputing

We need faster supercomputers to solve global warming
And to help Wall Street improve the economy

Its all apart of our Transhuman Evolution toward singulartiy

"try to predict what our warming climate will look like in the future"

Garbage presumptions, not even wrong models, super-computed to extreme precision, marketed by the UN IPCC, inspire confidence.

Zhen-Shan, L. and Xian, S.–. Multi-scale analysis of global temperature changes and trend of a drop in temperature in the next 20 years.

Solve global cooling since the earth is cooling now. I remember all those 1990s models claiming it would be 5oC warmer everywhere now – rubbish. No mention of the computer modeled ozone hole which should have been at NY by now either. Improve the economy? – you don't need a supercomputer to see the pyramid scheme of infinite debt and slavery which is the problem. Output from the Supercomputer: Dismantle the current money system and federal reserve.

faster computers are coming – each year they get faster and cooler

http://www.sency.com/fast-computers.htm

SkyNet will be online soon. 😀

We're smoked, that much I have figured out. If a threat ever materializes that the average tea-partier can't figure out in two seconds, we're going to walk straight into its jaws. Some will know what hit us, but that won't matter: the rabble will scream "it's a hoax!!!". It'll be a disaster within 50 years and you're going to deny it all they way until it strikes and then it won't matter.

Unless faster supercomputers improve flash trading profits,
Obamageddon is coming - wailing and gnashing of Goldman's teeth.

HyperFast computing will prove global warming is CO2 pollution caused,
And printing money for green jobs will save polar bears from drowning.

Why do I find political ramblings everywhere in the comments sections of CNN? "Tea-partier", "Obamageddon", come on people, you are identifying yourselves as idiots at best. Does every aspect of your lives get consumed by such petty thoughts? The story above is about super computers and has nothing to do with politics. People simply don't take your types seriously.

Now, onto this story. Supercomputers offer much more than simply bragging rights. It's the technology that goes into these marvels that eventually gets smaller and cheaper that will some day end up in our pockets. The power of that computer pictured above will be in everyone's hands, in my estimation, within 20 years. That's just incredible!

Franko:

Unfortunately, HyperFast computing won't prove anything. They are used to execute a model that is based partly on fact and partly on guesses trying to predict a result based on a system whose mechanics are not fully understood. What usually comes out of these models are a wide variety of probable outcomes. Minor variations in assumptions used in such models often produce significantly different results.
Models can be easily manipulated, often using seeminingly insignificant adjustments, to produce a result more in line with what the modeler is trying to 'prove'. The only way to know a model is right is to use hindsight. Even then, random natural events (such as the recent vocanic eruption) can significantly change what may occur in the future.

Ooogling; "Oak Ridge ... will use Nvidia's next generation GPU "
Massively interconnecting mass produced graphics chips.
Build your own, a 3 graphic card matrix cruncher ?

Wow. Amazing computer. I bet Windows Vista could slow it to a crawl after 3 days though.

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Republicans are afraid of supercomputers because these computers will prove that the the world they live in is an illusion.

Why is it called A super computer when in fact it is a lot of computers working in tandem

SMP is more badass than someone's political opinions.

Mike: its parallel processing. or distributed computing.
Infiniband or similar interfaces bind the nodes together, like an extended bus layer from the motherboard.

Same thing could be done with cellphones and tcpip. but would work like crap due to slow cpus on phones, and poor interconnect between devices.

I think these computers should be working on the next generation of computer chips. Nanometer scaled chips, nanorobotics,...things like that. Or at least the math to help get us there faster. Try and get some information that can benefit us today. Even if we could predict future climate changes, its not gonna change anything. This technology is amazing, but it doesn't seem to be reaching its full potential.

We need super computers to scan key words, word associations and word-to-word distances in real time for all of the new information being generated and posted on the web.

I thought the PlayStation3 was the current supercomputer.

Where was this junk heap when the stocks, financial, banking ,real estate market and the entire economy crashed......nice to have seen that s*7% coming eh?

Supercomputers need super cooling i guess:)