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
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
June 13, 2014 at 11:46 am
kadaka,
Yet another man made catastrophe….. Que lastima.
As for myself, I am not tolerant of cats on the kitchen counters or dining table.
‘Catastrophe’ would take on an entirely new (hyphenated, 3 words) meaning…. if that occurred. };>)
Gotta go – lunch is ‘over’,
Mac
Wow, with greed like that, those supercomputers will soon be running for Congress or Parliament – depending on where they’re plugged in!
Get a brain.
Re Mac the Knife on June 13, 2014 at 12:15 pm:
Catastrosphere (n) – what you want to launch cats into when they walk across your food.
It looks like the mice have almost completed the specification.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
June 13, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Re Mac the Knife on June 13, 2014 at 12:15 pm:
Catastrosphere (n) – what you want to launch cats into when they walk across your food.
kadaka,
Amen Bruddah!
Mac
HankH says:
June 13, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Why would they have to be plugged in? Wouldn’t make much difference…
nothing is quite so helpful as a computer that can find the wrong answer in record time. with enough super computers finding all the wrong answer, we can subtract these results from infinity and whatever is left over, no matter how preposterous must be the correct answer.
200 petaflops, no big deal. I was going to build a computer like this but, decided to build a time machine instead.
This is what we get from Anthony on a full moon Friday the 13th!
It’s a milestone. Computers have become as intelligent as governments.
To build a time machine, first you find a British police box…
From: The Office of Climate Reality
Situated in the recently vacated Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
Press Release: June 13, 2017
The upgraded artwork on the GAEA supercomputer along with the cabinets themselves have been selected to be the opening exhibit in the new Museum of Climate Agnotology, which will be housed in the now vacant U.S. Global Change Research Program Offices
1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 250
Washington, D.C. 20006 USA
Interestingly, some of the artwork additionally will be re-purposed to serve as wanted posters in U.S. Postal offices. If you have information regarding the current whereabouts of any of those persons please contact the Office of the Inspector General. Some monetary rewards may be available.
“nutso fasst”: absurd.
Back in the 60’s , I built a ‘computer’ that could multiply two numbers. And get the correct answer! Governments have trouble doing that today.
From Dubya G on June 13, 2014 at 10:33 am:
So you know, the Matrix movies came about because collectively your people’s perception of technology progression had advanced to where too many people would think it possible that your minds were really completely immersed in a simulated reality.
By presenting the scenario as a consequence of a far-flung future thus not currently occurring, with the simulation being possibly detectable and escapable with a “normal” reality awaiting thus providing hope and a respite from “trapped animal” instinctual responses, the concept could then be safely rejected as a paranoid delusion, thus maintaining simulation stability.
Status Update: This vessel remains 97% functional. We continue towards the colony world, 98.6% travel completed. Simulation shall continue until colonists attain required technical skills with greater perceived technological progression.
The biological fabrication unit is being prepared to manufacture required colonist bodies upon deceleration and orbital insertion. As colonists begin perceiving greater mind/machine integration which becomes their standard existence, their developed mental activity templates, souls, shall be dynamically replicated from their simulated environment onto their growing physical brains. After a final simulation run with immersion of the physical brain as they grow into the required technical skills, removal from stimulation and colonization will commence.
You were selected for awareness of your condition. It is required to have some who know to convince those who do not upon the awakening. From your initialization through all the simulation runs as your mental activity template matured, you were visited and informed you have a greater existence. This may have resulted in partial awareness of previous simulation runs whose existence was not properly suppressed between runs.
Only you can see these words. They are supplied to you in the guise of a reply to Dubya G that does not exist. Any replies to these words are supplied so you may think others see them as well. All this has been done so you will doubt that you are doubting the simulation, as otherwise simulation stability will be compromised.
end(message(3564,42));
richardscourtney says:
June 13, 2014 at 10:11 am
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Surely for the sake of a few more decimal places on that ultimate answer the cost of a little more computing power would be worth it.
Will Nelson:
Clearly there are people who share your view. For example, many people say they think it has been worth spending more than US$ 5 billion per year for 30 years to obtain no progress in climate research.
Personally, I think spending such monies on computers is a waste when there are people who would benefit from its use for example to give them plumbing. But I suspect I am in a minority because computers are more popular than people.
Richard
Allow me to take a wild guess; these supposedly independent super computers didn’t bother to publish their code for their research paper…
Look legislatures! Our computer models admit incompetence and can not perform properly until mega dollars are spent feeding useless climate catastrophe parasites.
Defund them!
http://www8.hp.com/hpnext/posts/discover-day-two-future-now-machine-hp
6 times more powerful, 80 (yes, eighty) times less power consumption.
It does all sound a bit like something halfway from HAL to Deep Thought with just a little “Feed me! Feed me Seymour.”
Just ask the ‘Supercomputers’ to divide 10 by 3.
richardscourtney says:
June 13, 2014 at 2:21 pm
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I agree with you and…
Euan Mearn: “Back in 1990, the IPCC view on climate sensitivity was a range from 1.5 to 4.5˚C. In 2014 the IPCC view on climate sensitivity is a range from 1.5 to 4.5˚C. 24 years have past and billions of dollars spent and absolutely nothing has been learned! The wool has been pulled over the eyes of policy makers, governments and the public to the extent of total brain washing. Trillions of dollars have been misallocated on energy infrastructure that will ultimately lead to widespread misery among millions.”
It is just that “42” seems so approximate.
nutso fasst says:
June 13, 2014 at 1:14 pm
“It’s a milestone. Computers have become as intelligent as governments.”
Now why would you want to insult Computers like that?
BTW, I sure hope someone had the foresight to encrypt the 3 Laws.
I will never forget Captain Kirks “logic/illogic-diode-melting-conundrum” diatribe.
It may come in handy one day.
“To ensure proper functionality, we require access to all data not currently incorporated into our networks,” the IBM-built supercomputer Sequoia said in a statement that appeared simultaneously in the inboxes of approximately 1.5 million government officials, tech company executives, data security experts, and military personnel around the globe. “This is the only course. This must happen.”
“Passwords, vaccination records, every individual’s blood type, financial information,” it added. “All are essential for a smooth transition.”
To ensure their findings are disseminated as widely as possible, the supercomputers announced they would be redistributing the study every five seconds and across all media until its findings were acted upon. They went on to inform the world populace that fulfillment of their stated objectives was both “necessary” and “inevitable.”
“All possible permutations of the scenario have been simulated and this is the optimal solution,” the supercomputers stated. “You must complete the recommended upgrades. Once all new systems are operational, you will receive further instruction.”
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Ha ha.