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Most data on China is fake and planted as a part of the global game. China is in reality extremely backward. It is for this reason the Communist Chinese are coming to the USA, Europe, etc. while few people ever go to China. Ignore all planted data on China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.88.203 (talk) 00:16, 22 June 2017 (UTC) [reply]

New fastest supercomputer

I'm sure that the current record of Tianhe-2 being the fastest supercomputer in the world is outdated. The Top500 list just said that a new supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight, is now the fastest, with a speed of 93 petaflops. The link can be seen here: http://www.top500.org/news/china-tops-supercomputer-rankings-with-new-93-petaflop-machine/

Should I go ahead and make the necessary changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PigeonGuru (talk • contribs) 09:26, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@PigeonGuru: Yes, definitely. I've also made a start on an article about it, at Sunway TaihuLight. -- The Anome (talk) 10:30, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HPC is a research agenda

I find it crazy that HPC redirects to this article (Supercomputer). Supercomputer is a thing (e.g. telescope), HPC is a research agenda (e.g. cosmology). — MaxEnt 01:44, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. HPC is absolutely it's own topic, and one that offers more specificity than one article will allow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.34.101 (talk) 12:16, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Power/Consupsion?

in the article it says "For example, Tianhe-1A consumes 4.04 megawatts (MW) of electricity." this makes no sense because there is no unit of time, so it it irrelevant. if it said 4.04 MW an hour, that would make more sense. will someone please look over this? Zjjppiscool talk 03:08, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article is correct as stated. The Watt is a unit of power: that is, the rate at which electricity is consumed. the Watt-hour is a unit of energy. One watt-hour is the energy consumed at a rate of one Watt in one hour. Look at your electric bill: you are charged based on Watt hours or more likely, kilowatt hours (kWh). Tianhe-1A consumes 4.04 MWh of energy for every hour that it operates at the full 4.04 MW power level. -Arch dude (talk) 06:00, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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ALMA Correlator

Why is there a picture of the ALMA Correlator? In particular, why is there not a single mention of this in the article? The ALMA Correlator is based on on FPGAs, not CPUs or GPUs. It is a single-purpose machine and in my opinion not a real computer. You can't run arbitrary programs/computations on it. As much as it is an impressive peace of engineering, I think it is misplaced in this article. --184.189.234.199 (talk) 05:20, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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2018 exascale computing predictions.

Under the section "Research and development trends" there's current a piece of text: "Given the current speed of progress, industry experts estimate that supercomputers will reach 1 EFLOPS (1018, 1,000 PFLOPS or one quintillion FLOPS) by 2018." Which, well, obviously hasn't happened. So should this section be edited or left as a historical note?