China reclaims world's fastest supercomputer title

I don't get the point of caring who has the fastest single computer system, but just quickly counting through the top 50 on the 500 site China has 4 super computers, while the united states has 16. Who do you think is getting more done the country with 4 high end computers systems or the country with 16. Also just within the top ten the united states have 5 systems listed, half of the worlds 10 fastest computer systems are in the united states. Another interesting little number crunch is there computer uses 17 megawatts, our top 3 use 18.5 mega watts, talk about efficiency. Also those 3 systems using only 1 mega watt more have a combined processing power of 45 petaflops, so 1mw more of power usage but 12 more Petaflops. Also looking at some of the systems the USA have in planning this title prob won't stay with the Chinese for long.
This is great stuff. I almost don't know where to start lampooning it.. Let's try a country song....

"I got a nineteen megawatt petaflopper waitin' for ya,
So if you know what's good for ya darlin',
Yo best be gittin' on home"

We's gonna stay up late
We's gonna calculate
We's gonna procreate
So honey don't be late

I'll petaflop ya silly
Give you a big wet willy
Then calculate some more
 
Two things are very clear: First, we give China far too much bloody money and secondly, jesus that's 260,000 Xeon E5-2692's!!
To add insult to injury, Intel hasn't actually launched the Ivy Bridge-EP range yet. The Chinese HPC guys seem to take NDA's and launch dates as seriously as their beta testers/forum members.

The performance-per-watt would suffer (overall) because the Xeon Phi math co-processors aren't as efficient (in raw algebra figures) as the Nvidia Tesla K20X's of Titan, even though the Intel CPU's will be a lot more frugal on power than the Opteron's.
 
This is great stuff. I almost don't know where to start lampooning it.. Let's try a country song....

"I got a nineteen megawatt petaflopper waitin' for ya,
So if you know what's good for ya darlin',
Yo best be gittin' on home"

We's gonna stay up late
We's gonna calculate
We's gonna procreate
So honey don't be late

I'll petaflop ya silly
Give you a big wet willy
Then calculate some more
not bad but I hate country music, so try a different genre plz.
 
not bad but I hate country music, so try a different genre plz.
Thats easy!! Change the tune and tempo.

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I know this is off-topic, but why would I be redirected to another website when clicking Reply? This has happen two or three times, it has to be more than coincidence. The first time, I figured it was I that had clicked the wrong location.
 
Thats easy!! Change the tune and tempo.
That lyric line work probably work in ragtime. But then, there's no accommodating all tastes, and personally I love country. It's probably an old fart thing.
I know this is off-topic, but why would I be redirected to another website when clicking Reply? This has happen two or three times, it has to be more than coincidence. The first time, I figured it was I that had clicked the wrong location.
You, off topic? Don't be silly. Still in all, every time I report some supernatural occurrence in this vein, I'm told, "your browser is trolling you". So...?

Even further off topic, (and I have no idea why I simply don't become quite petulant at this point), this does beg the question, "what website, is it the same one every time?

The biggest cause of redirects is usually malware. No sayin' that's the case here. But still, it isn't impossible. I can say nothing like this is happening with me, and I quote ("reply"), with almost every post, just for continuity of thought.

The only site I almost constantly get redirected from is, of all places, Newegg! And that's because, their site crashes periodically from, (I believe) excess traffic. Even there, I get Newegg China. Everything revolves around China these days, even the browser errors.
 
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