Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science

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Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 10, 2011 @03:41PM from the thousands-of-feynmans-per-hour dept.

gupg writes "When China built the world's fastest supercomputer based on NVIDIA GPUs last year, a lot of naysayers said this was just a stunt machine. Well, guess what — here comes the science! They are working on better material for solar panels and they ran the world's fastest simulation ever. NVIDIA (whose GPUs accelerate these applications as a co-processor) blogged on this a while ago, where they talk about how the US really needs to up its investment in high performance computing."

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Re:When will it be used for its real purpose... (Score:5, Funny)

by snookerhog ( 1835110 ) writes: on Friday June 10, 2011 @03:47PM (#36404834)

you mean it is not for mining bitcoins?

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A super computer.doing science? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday June 10, 2011 @03:56PM (#36404934)

Is there cake?

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