Comments on: IBM Warns that China is Closing the Supercomputer Gap

By: Martin Hiegl

Martin Hiegl — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:46:23 +0000

Well with this 1 exascale machine you can solve that one “EXA” problem _and_ tackle the 1000 PETA problems

By: Name Too

Name Too — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:52:08 +0000

> Nice fearmongering.
Yup. And IBM knows how to play this game better than anyone else. Being flooded with cash by Congress is one way to recoup the losses made while advancing the Science of Linpack.

Let’s make a case for 1 exascale machine instead of distributing 1000 petaflop machines across the country. Surely 1 person can solve that one “EXA” problem better than 1000 different people tackling big enough PETA problems.

HPC is pathetic.

By: Skip

Skip — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:20:02 +0000

China is definitely committed to technology leadership – the Exascale Report has been referring to this – even with some anonymous quotes from folks in China – for several months now.

By: Name

Name — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:11:50 +0000

Nice fearmongering. It’s uncalled for to insinuate that we would have a reason to bomb this.