Comments on: Pictures of technological imbalance via the Top500 http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Allinea expands with German reseller | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-187866 Allinea expands with German reseller | insideHPC.com Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:04:45 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-187866 [...] up with a German company makes sense: if you look at the Top500 visualization I did that breaks out the EU by country, Germany is second only to the US in ownership of Top500 [...] [...] up with a German company makes sense: if you look at the Top500 visualization I did that breaks out the EU by country, Germany is second only to the US in ownership of Top500 [...]

]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-186957 John West Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:12 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-186957 Answers1 - I'm not arguing (and didn't argue in my post) that an imbalance with respect to the US is unexpected. What is dismaying is that, beyond a very few countries, significant supercomputing power is not well distributed throughout the rest of the world. Given the value of supercomputers as a universal intellectual amplifier (credit to Dan Reed for the term), this virtually guarantees that the rest of the world is not a full partner in the process of scientific discovery. Answers1 – I’m not arguing (and didn’t argue in my post) that an imbalance with respect to the US is unexpected. What is dismaying is that, beyond a very few countries, significant supercomputing power is not well distributed throughout the rest of the world. Given the value of supercomputers as a universal intellectual amplifier (credit to Dan Reed for the term), this virtually guarantees that the rest of the world is not a full partner in the process of scientific discovery.

]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-186956 John West Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:13:41 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-186956 Troposphere - These pictures, and most of the others that one could draw that chart the distribution of technological and scientific capacity throughout the world, show a distinct non-homogeneous distribution of capability throughout the world. Certainly the most visible to my mind is the strong trend for Top500 systems to be located north of the equator. I'm not commenting on the nature of the market, or on the value of a capital market structure. But I am noting that advanced scientific capacity, seen through the lens of supercomputing power, is very lumpily distributed. Remedies? Don't have any...I don't make policy. Troposphere – These pictures, and most of the others that one could draw that chart the distribution of technological and scientific capacity throughout the world, show a distinct non-homogeneous distribution of capability throughout the world. Certainly the most visible to my mind is the strong trend for Top500 systems to be located north of the equator. I’m not commenting on the nature of the market, or on the value of a capital market structure. But I am noting that advanced scientific capacity, seen through the lens of supercomputing power, is very lumpily distributed.

Remedies? Don’t have any…I don’t make policy.

]]> By: Troposphere http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-186952 Troposphere Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:45:11 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-186952 Along what dimension does the author believe there is an "Imbalance", what evidence does he have to convince us, and what does the he propose as a remedy? I suggest that the supply of these systems is in perfect balance with demand, and that the title should read "Pictures of technological balance via the Top500" Along what dimension does the author believe there is an “Imbalance”, what evidence does he have to convince us, and what does the he propose as a remedy?

I suggest that the supply of these systems is in perfect balance with demand, and that the title should read “Pictures of technological balance via the Top500″

]]> By: Answers1 http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-186950 Answers1 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:29:45 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-186950 US researchers just won 9 of the 10 Nobel Prizes for the hard sciences. Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Apple, IBM, HP, etc. dominate their markets in technology. America's drug research subsidizes the ROW. The US spends more on the military (and its processing power) than the rest of the world combined. Is it not logical and perhaps even necessary that the US would have most of the world's computer processing power? US researchers just won 9 of the 10 Nobel Prizes for the hard sciences. Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Apple, IBM, HP, etc. dominate their markets in technology. America’s drug research subsidizes the ROW. The US spends more on the military (and its processing power) than the rest of the world combined. Is it not logical and perhaps even necessary that the US would have most of the world’s computer processing power?

]]> By: Top500 visualization revisited, this time with the EU | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-185847 Top500 visualization revisited, this time with the EU | insideHPC.com Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:51:29 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-185847 [...] my post on Europe’s continued HPC planning at a massive scale, I started wondering how the Top500 [...] [...] my post on Europe’s continued HPC planning at a massive scale, I started wondering how the Top500 [...]

]]> By: abu rawan http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-185455 abu rawan Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:31:49 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-185455 Very good information ... Very good information …

]]> By: <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="512170603">Brandon Tahedl</fb:name> http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-185400 Brandon Tahedl Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:05:57 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-185400 Very cool information! I was always wondering how the processing power of the world was distributed. - Brandon Very cool information! I was always wondering how the processing power of the world was distributed. – Brandon

]]> By: Czech external debt down at CZK 1467bn in Q2 | Prague Monitor | FinanceBlogr http://insidehpc.com/2009/09/30/pictures-of-technological-imbalance-via-the-top500/#comment-185238 Czech external debt down at CZK 1467bn in Q2 | Prague Monitor | FinanceBlogr Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:14:12 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=7386#comment-185238 [...] Pictures of technological imbalance via the Top500 | insideHPC.com [...] [...] Pictures of technological imbalance via the Top500 | insideHPC.com [...]

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