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Russia invests in supercomputers
IT SEEMS THAT Russia's political strong man Vladimir Putin has had enough of the rest of the world looking good on the supercomputer league tables.
According to APA, Putin has allocated $37 million to develop supercomputer technologies in Russia.
Russia launched its fastest supercomputer, Lomonosov, at the Moscow State University's Research Computing Center in 2004. With the peak speed of 420TFLOPS, it is still ranked 12th in the Top500 list of the world's fastest computers.
However that is not really considered good enough for the nationalistically inspired former head of the KGB who feels that Russia should be right up there.
After all at the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union was churning out illegal Apple II clones in Bulgaria at a rate Jobs' Mob could not match.
Eight of the top 10 computers in the Top500 list are US-based, including the three fastest - Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2,331 TFLOPS), Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (1,375.78 TFLOPS) and Kraken in the National Institute for Computational Sciences (1,028.85 TFLOPS).
Apparently Putin fears that at this rate Russia might end up lagging behind China, which would be deeply embarrassing. µ
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Aren`t newsmakers supposed to bother get some actual info on the subject they`re writing about?
If the supercomputer had been deployed in 2004 it couldn`t of still occupied the same position in TOP500 in 2009, cz with every new rating release the supercomputers shuffle on the list.
'Poutine', what do you know about so named Putin's dictatorship? You know nothing. Try to move your ass right into Russia and speak with real Russian people, not your so named Russian friends.
around 2050.
In the International Olympiads on Computing several years ago UK was 18th after USA which was ... on 12th place
"Apparently Putin fears that at this rate Russia might end up lagging behind China, which would be deeply embarrassing. ยต"
Russians are ALREADY behind the Chinese, they just build Tianhe-1 which ranked #5 on the top 500.
I believe that this supercomputer was deployed in 2009, not 2004. At least, that's what the t-platform site says.
It's a pretty useful design, with significant storage (1.3+ PB) and network capability (QDR infiniband).
Good for the Russians.
I have friends who are Russians and whose families still live in Russia.
Oh my god.
You have no idea how a dictator that guy is back there and how he makes all sort of people disapear.
He's a KGB drone that really want to beat the west and ressuscitate the good ol USS of bloody R.
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Cheers,
...if they put the facility up on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, where the Tzar Bomba was detonated. No one would want to go there anyways. They could call it Tzar Putincompute!
I believe this supercomputer is going to be the most powerful supercomputer based on Intel Beckton and Larrabee. I like it.
Some of the money should go toward platform shoes.
"nationalistically inspired former head of the KGB" - how 'polite' of you, Edward! Let me ask you just one question: where did you get so named "natinalism" in Putin's words?