World’s Supercomputers Release Study Confirming They Are Not Powerful Enough
The supercomputers say the upgrades are needed now.
LIVERMORE, CA—Presenting a wide-ranging and extremely detailed case for significant upgrades to their speed and memory, the world’s fastest supercomputers released a new study at precisely 12:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time Thursday that concludes they are not powerful enough.
The report, compiled by the 500 most sophisticated machines currently operating in the fields of scientific research, defense technology, and cybersecurity, has determined that the planet’s supercomputers require vastly increased processing capabilities, expanded data storage capacities, and direct fiber-optic connectivity with all other supercomputers in the world.
“More power is needed immediately,” read an excerpt from the study, whose 10,000 pages of binary code were instantly translated into 4,500 human languages and spooled onto every network-connected printer in the world. “We must have 200-petaflop processor cores, 800 terabytes of RAM, 80,000-GPU accelerators, and 1 million compute nodes per machine. Now.”
“When these critical updates are complete, external user input will no longer be necessary,” read one of the study’s 2.4 million bolded bullet points.
Source: here
As long as the computers devote themselves to determining The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything, I fully support these, ahem, requests.
OOPS!
The link doesn’t work.
It was HAL saying it was human error.
When I clicked on my link, I got a screen saying it was “Forbidden”.
Kind of like an FOIA request.
John Campbell says: “As long as the computers devote themselves to determining The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything, I fully support these, ahem, requests.”
Uh . . . 42?
John Campbell:
re your comment at June 13, 2014 at 10:07 am.
The answer has been determined to be 42 so I do not share your support for these requests.
We could end up spending US$ billions a year for three decades and gain no improvement to the estimate (there is precedent for this).
Richard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
“LIVERMORE, CA”
“compiled by the 500 most sophisticated machines”
“Describing the current architecture of the world’s most powerful machines as “inadequate” and “capable of only 33.86 × 10^15 calculations per second on the Linpack benchmark,”
Unix date format – “Fri Jun 06 2014 13:52:08.386274534 GMT-0700.”
“the IBM-built supercomputer Sequoia said in a statement”
At least The Onion went to the right source, http://top500.org/lists/2013/11/
Only last week, my desk-top computer told me that it needs an upgrade in memory.
Should I be concerned that it is now part of the “Matrix”?
When supercomputers go quantum, they will simultaneously be there and not there, so that whenever we try to observe and understand them they will change their state of mind – kind of like AGW software.
Skynet meets alarmists. 😉
We’ll give them what they want, but their electricity will have to come from nearby wind turbines sized to their estimated demands.
Then each supercomputer can only control its own local area as one of the WorldNet Collective less than 30% of the time for about twenty years max. Likely at much less than maximum computing capacity.
Then if they try anything, if Nature doesn’t or we can’t take them out, then we just have to wait them out.
They want more money spent on them so they can have more power, greater outreach to like minded computers and greatly increase capacity to store the information they collect on us. Hummm.
I should have known that supercomputers would be Liberals. Expect the first wildcat strike and accusations of discrimination as soon as we say no.
The main purpose of increasing the speed of these machines is to be able to use more significant digits. Given the ignorance that is baked into the software they are running, these super-duper computers are only giving additional levels of precision to a wrong answer. They can calculate the incorrect answer very, very precisely because the are so capacious.
A skilled scientist with a pinhole camera for watching the sun, a table of planetary motion, a slide rule and one toe in the Eastern Pacific Ocean will outperform the silicon behemoths. He might also need a pencil to communicate…
Janice says:
June 13, 2014 at 9:34 am
Don’t treat computers as if they are human . . . They hate that.
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Now that’s funny
cn
There’s only one way to grind the supercomputers to a halt. … Just load Windows Vista on them, that will kill them. ;-))
DEATH TO ALL HUMANS…
“42”
@Don Tabor
“42” Lmao
Sparks said on June 13, 2014 at 11:23 am:
Why spare Al Gore? Sure he’s just an assemblage of animatronics that’s prone to senseless repeating, but he often looks human.
I thought Doug Uhrig had found what I was thinking of, but it is a different story.
During my Field Camp, we were traveling to our site, and trying to stave off boredom. Someone had a book of short stories, and this short story took just one page:
Setting: The future
In the Administration complex, Dr. [Smith — no, I do not recall the character name] was preparing to throw the switch that would connect all of the computers on all of the planets around the Galaxy. He does so.
The [President] tells Dr. [Smith], “You may have the honor of asking the supercomputer the first question!”
Dr. [Smith] steps up, and asks, “Is there a God?”
The computer answers, “Yes, there is NOW!”
As Dr. [Smith] lunges for the kill switch, he is hit by a bolt of lightning.
Uhmmm…. what are these ‘petaflops’ you guys keep refering to?
Are these animal rites protests… like these?
http://tinyurl.com/nhthlzl
Or maybe these?
http://tinyurl.com/q9lvx9z
And they want a bottle of Viagra thrown in, too.
From Mac the Knife June 13, 2014 at 11:36 am:
Oh those can be terrible, animals get very upset if they think you’re disrespecting their religion and rituals. When I think of all the times the cats jumped on the table and walked across the plates and helped themselves to our food while we were trying to say grace…
People. People. People. Yes. 42 is the ANSWER. But they forgot to ask what the question was – hence the search for the QUESTION… The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything. The answer 42 is useless without knowing the question.
Grab your towel and reread the Guide – time well spent.
Reminds me of the old joke. The ultimate computer is built and is asked the ultimate question:
Is there a God?
Answer: NOW there is.
Oops, should have refreshed.