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Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who was present at the unveiling, said the computer was about “making people’s lives better.”
"We know we are in a competition, and we know this competition is real and it matters who gets there first," Perry said, according to CBS.
"There are things this computer does that I can't explain, but what I can explain is that there are people's lives out there that can be changed, maybe a loved one with a terrible disease," he added.
This looks like a significant step forward in computing power. Shrinking all that power from 4,608 servers to a laptop sized machine for portable use would be something, huh? Can that even be done in 20 years?
In that article, which was published two days ago, they talk about the new Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In the article, they link to another article, though: It seems that China already has at least 2 such exascale supercomputers in operation, OceanLight and Tianhe-3, the former since March 2021, the latter since October 2021. But the Chinese are trying to keep that news from spreading, probably for political reasons, who knows. Those computers are not even listed on the national Chinese, let alone international supercomputer rankings:
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