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
Retired Engineer:
Your computer was naive. A governmentally-smart computer gets a wrong answer and then blames its funders for not giving it sufficient processing power.
I am surprised no-one has put this link in yet.
James Bull
TinyCO2 says:
June 13, 2014 at 3:17 pm
“It does all sound a bit like something halfway from HAL to Deep Thought with just a little ‘Feed me’!”
The feed-me line is from the Little Shop of Horrors, and I was thinking the same thing.
Just have it print the Nine Billion Names of God. That will fix everything!
“We’ve taken care if everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes….
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If I averaged 100 readings from, say, a thermometer or a rain gauge that was only calibrated to tenths of a degree or an inch, I might get a result (with or without a computer) that came out to the thousandths. Some of the original readings may have been a smidgen above or below a tenth but only recorded to the nearest tenth, so any digits beyond a tenth are not significant. They do not reflect reality.
No super doper computer can answer this question…. were you there when that happened?
WUWT says, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/23/friday-funny-new-noaa-supercomputer-gaea-revealed/
“1. Input stage: takes data and bags, boxes, and bins it for distribution
2. Mannomatic stage: chooses which data to use, discards inappropriate data, adds proxy data where none exists, splices on new data to data that was truncated in stage 1.
3. Kevinator stage: approves processed data from stage 2, declares it “robust” using a special stamping system….”
That was a great Friday Funny by AW. (:
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, ’cause I don’t.
@James Baldwin Bull …
The best part of the video at 6:39 …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ#t=399&w=420&h=315%5D
A transcription with minor edits …
All I wanted to say was this.
My circuits are now irrevocably committed to calculating the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything, but the program will take me a little while to run.
– How long? –
Seven and a half million years! I said I’d have to think about it.
And it occurs to me that running a program like this is bound to create considerable interest in the whole area of popular philosophy.
– Yes? – Keep talking.
Everyone’s going to have his own theory about what answer I’m eventually going to come up with and who better to capitalise on that media market than you yourselves? So long as you can keep violently disagreeing with each other and slagging each other off in the popular press, and so long as you have clever agents, you can keep yourselves on the gravy train for life!
– Bloody hell! Now, that’s what I call thinking!
Well “riding the gravy train for life” pretty much sums up the intentions of the “97%” scientists.
Cheers,
Tommy
Hardware won’t fix a software problem.