8.22.2005
Moore's law and international competition
There are a wide range of things that can spur Moore's law, including international competition:
China joins U.S. and Japan in global race to build the fastest computer
From the article:
China joins U.S. and Japan in global race to build the fastest computer
From the article:
- In recent weeks there have been reports that both the Japanese and Chinese are planning new investments in breaking the petaflop-computing barrier. A petaflop is a measure of computing performance that describes the ability to perform 1,000 trillion mathematical operations per second.
'Everyone appears to be in the race for a petaflop,' said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee who maintains a list of the world's fastest computers.
Currently the world's fastest computer is a machine installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory late last year - and still growing - that has reached more than 136 trillion operations per second, or 100,000 times the speed of a fast desktop personal computer.
International Business Machines built the machine, known as BlueGene/L, and plans to double its speed by the end of the year. Only small amounts of research funds have been spent so far on designing a petaflop supercomputer, a step that Japanese and American experts believe will cost nearly $1 billion to achieve. In the United States, Cray, IBM and Sun Microsystems have begun work toward reaching a petaflop by the end of the decade, supported by a Pentagon-financed development project.
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It's been said that whoever controls the first nanotechnology universal assembler, controls the world.
The idea is that it would be used to create (and be created by) a super-intelligence, and that the super-intelligence would use the nanotech to halt all other nanotech research, around the world.
So, large masses of computing power are very important. Today, that means Google, and the super-computers of the world, stuff like that. In the future, who knows. Something to watch for, though.
The idea is that it would be used to create (and be created by) a super-intelligence, and that the super-intelligence would use the nanotech to halt all other nanotech research, around the world.
So, large masses of computing power are very important. Today, that means Google, and the super-computers of the world, stuff like that. In the future, who knows. Something to watch for, though.
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: 2:27 PM, August 22, 2005
: 2:27 PM, August 22, 2005
These things tend to develop in parallel (or greater numbers) so I wouldn't be suprised if several research facilities announce breakthroughs around the same time. Unless the Koreans get there first...damn you Samsung! :)
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: 3:34 PM, August 28, 2005
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