China has recently unveiled a domestically developed supercomputing system which is said to be more powerful than Tianhe-2, one of China's fastest supercomputers, as per the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
Andree Jacobson, CIO, New Mexico Consortium & Project Manager, PRObE
Andree Jacobson, CIO, New Mexico Consortium & Project Manager, PRObE
Government and industry alike invest heavily in massive computer systems to satisfy the insatiable demand for compute power of today’s society. Compared to other types of equipment, computers have an unusually short life-span. After only a few years of operation most computers are replaced with faster, better, systems. With all this hardware being continuously decommissioned, where does it all go? The technology competition is essentially a modern version of the space race that occurred during the cold war as the country with the fastest computer will perform the most advanced science