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Re: China says it will finish 'super supercomputer' prototype this year

From rami18 <coco@coco.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: China says it will finish 'super supercomputer' prototype this year
Date 2017-06-14 12:59 -0400
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On 6/14/2017 11:56 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 14/6/2017 10:06 PM, rami18 wrote:
>> China says it will finish 'super supercomputer' prototype this year
>> An exascale computer is capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 
>> calculations per second
> 
> Why do we need these computing power? For calculating what?
> 
> Do they believe we could calculate and foretell the future? :)
> 



Hexascale for simulating the brain, to be able to reverse engineer the 
brain..


New supercomputer software takes one giant step closer to simulating the 
human brain

Read here:

https://phys.org/news/2015-10-supercomputer-software-giant-closer-simulating.html


Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.

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Re: China says it will finish 'super supercomputer' prototype this year "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 23:56 +0800
  Re: China says it will finish 'super supercomputer' prototype this year rami18 <coco@coco.com> - 2017-06-14 12:59 -0400

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