Chinese Computer Trumps US One as World's Fastest

[Win7User512]

A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower.

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[Trucidation]

The Chinese system follows that model by linking thousands upon thousands of chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia.

Bah. E-peen contests albeit at the government level. Are there any supercomputers in this list which aren't simply cpu zergs?

 

[spinifex]

Modern supercomputers are built by combining thousands of small computer servers and using software to turn them into a single entity.
In that sense, any organization with enough money and expertise can buy what amount to off-the-shelf components and create a fast machine.
The Chinese system follows that model by linking thousands upon thousands of chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia.

Based on this quote, the members of Sevenforums have enough computing power to give them a run for their money.
(i have another 30 odd comps accessible to me in the shed to add to the tally).

 

[SledgeDG]

LOL And it all began, when some smart assembler programmer utilized the 6502 chip in the Floppy drive of the C64 to aid in graphics calculations. Before that Raytracing on C64 was a matter of several days