China Tops Global Supercomputer Speed List for 7th year

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http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article84780327.html

BEIJING
A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world's fastest computers for the seventh straight year — and for the first time the winner uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology.

The announcement Monday is a new milestone for Chinese supercomputer development and a further erosion of past U.S. dominance of the field.

Last year's Chinese winner in the TOP500 ranking maintained by researchers in the United States and Germany slipped to No. 2, followed by a computer at the U.S. government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Also this year, China displaced the United States for the first time as the country with the most supercomputers in the top 500. China had 167 systems and the United States had 165. Japan was a distant No. 3 with 29 systems.
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[dembotoz]

1. usa usa usa usa

sounding a bit hollow today

[TheBlackAdder]

2. When firms ship their technology offshore, only a fool thinks that information stays proprietary.

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Folks off-shoring or "globalizing" their workforce, by enlisting talent in emerging economies are foolish to think that the firms, the employees or the state won't leverage that intellectual property in some manner to benefit their partners, families or government.


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