Another rant…

Another rant…

I wrote this long “reply rant” to a Facebook post by a friend that expressed the philosophy that the government doesn’t owe us squat… but I never posted the reply. So I’m posting it here. The government does owe us something. In fact, we the people ordained it and...

Tianhe-2 supercomputer claims the lead in Top 500 list, thanks its 3.1 million processor cores

Tianhe-2 supercomputer claims the lead in Top 500 list, thanks its 3.1 million processor cores

Tianhe-2 supercomputer claims the lead in Top 500 list, thanks its 3.1 million processor cores

The revelation China has built and is already operating the world’s fastest supercomputer, with a huge lead, isn’t likely to be noticed by many in the mainstream. And even if it is, it’s not that big of a story, since super computers tend to leap one...