China steals supercomputer title from the US

The trouble with that idea is, we'd probably have to borrow the money off China to do it.

@dividebyzero, how cutthroatily-piratey of you.

Am I to assume that you don't subscrible to slightly-obfuscative almost-conspiracy theories?

America ASSEMBLED the previously first place supercomputer. China still built it.

Ouch, that hurts......

with the crisis fully set on the world now, it will take for any other country to overthown china's title, maybe india. Do I see i trend in economy power and supercomputer power???

I thought the title said that china stole a supercomputer from the US.

Really, the article's title has a smidge of bias in it. It seems they "won" the title of, "Worlds Fastest Supercomputer". But since "the contest" was rather informal at best, it's really a bit difficult to say exactly what happened.

It's hard to say, "I won the race", if the other guy says, "but I wasn't racing".

That said, I still think we should borrow the money from China, and build ourselves a supercomputer faster than theirs. Besides, think of the massive irony that would be.

Then Chinese can build an even faster super computer from what US will build from borrowed money, by simply spending the 'interest' they'll get paid on the loan. Hence, it would be an even more catastrophically massive irony.

If I did....or maybe...if I were part of it, what better camouflage than lampooning it?
But of course it's all clearly nonsense, since most people in the know are well aware that Hitler has set up home on the moon, and the real puppet-master has been, at least since 1981, the re-animated corpse of David Hasselhoff - after DARPA successfully managed to graft the enviromental control unit from a Toyota Camry into David's otherwise vacant skull ( Little known fact: Knight Rider is a thinly veiled documentary..The art of hiding something in plain view! Although due to quality control concerns, the World Government decided against using the Pontiac TransAm -or any GM product.)

Hahaha you made me spoil my laptop with that last one! I spilled my Guinness all over the keyboard!

So then, what you're trying to say is, the reason Hasselhoff was the first to be kicked off this season of "Dancing With the Stars", was the fact you, "can't teach an old Pontiac new dances"? Not even in reduced gravity...?

BTW, thanks for the heads up! I never knew that the DTWS sound stage was on the Moon.........(Man in the Moon, with a s*** eatin' grin smiley goes >>> (here) <<<......:wave: ))!

Ironic in the fact that these are the only people now who can play Microsoft Flight Sim 10 on full graphics

Right, there's so much bloat in that program, it's a wonder that the aircraft ever get off the ground.

Presumeably a direct quote from General Motors' press release kit entitled " A Positive Spin on Understeer"

I doubt there is. I'd think that DWTS is probably a little frivolous for a 121 year-old Adolf Hitler- he'd probably order the annihilation of Pacific Island nation if he missed his daily Metameucil, imagine the fallout(!) if he had to share his secret lab/condo with Mike Sorrentino

MIke Sorrentino likely cannot spell supercomputer, but just as likely has enough MTV money to purchase one
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Ahem, Don't you mean a "negative spin on oversteer", and wasn't that "Consumer Reports? From the same wonderful people that flipped the Suzuki "Samurai".

Back on topic, we could have used the Chinese supercomputer to solve the oil leaks and oversteer of the Corvair. :rolleyes: Meh, pushrod covers are supposed to leak, just ask Harley Davidsion. I think that was from the Harley press release titled, "Oil stains in the driveway, noise, and powerful vibration are all potent symbols of manliness".

BTW, I think that Harley parts are being made in China nowadays, is there nothing sacred? I doubt that that requires a supercomputer though. After all, they've been pumping out the same crap for at least 60 years.

Have you seen Donovan McNabb recently? He looks rather natty in his Washington Redskins costume.

This reminds me of a system I was much faster than: I type something and the characters appear on the screen a couple of seconds later. With over 14,000 processors and 7,000 graphics cards, the heat from the processors put togehter should bake thousands of cakes.

I wonder when my country fellows can come up with something like this. Quite a milestone.

Quite so. Donovan McNabb is definitely not noted for his quickness of foot- although his stomach muscles are well developed. Although to be fair, the Philadelphia Eagles (McNabb era) offensive playbook consisted of: 1st/2nd/3rd down: "Throw deep into coverage" and 4th Down: "Throw it up for grabs, what the hell it's 4th and 10" (I presume you were commenting on CC's post immediately above your own. Soz for the confusion if this is not the case)

One word: Defragmentation

This is a supercomputers primary use. Number crunching is simply a by-product of the baked sweets industry.

I believe they are working tirelessly as you (slowly) typed your comment. I have had many (many) emails urging me to invest time and money to assist your countrymen in accessing "unclaimed money". Since this is all computer based, I assume that some of the funds would get channeled into high performance computing so that further unclaimed funds would be freed up in due course.

Your Royal Majesty,
Please be advised that I have the money you need to assist in retrieving your inheritance! I stand at the ready to assist in any way I can! I have, unfortunately, hit a rather large snag. Money orders are very, very expensive where I come from. So, if you could forward me the $1000.00 USD I need to purchase one, I will send you the money you need at God's speed.

Very Truly Yours,

Baron Von Cranky

No problem.
I hear he's sending both Mike Vick and Donovan McNabb down to Western Union with $500 each. Donovan is likely to be intercepted, but Mike has issued assurances that he'll turn his $500 into the $1000 required....if the Pit Bull beats the aged family Labrador inside 60 seconds at Mo's place in the three o'clock matchup.

I wonder if the people who maintain this computer ever get a chance to do something frivolous and fun, even if only for a few minutes. As mentioned previously, it would be amazing to see this thing run Crysis Warhead all maxed out.