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El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest

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93 points rbanffy | 4 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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balia ◴[19 Nov 24 21:53 UTC] No.42188494[source]▶
Some may not want to hear this, but these “fastest supercomputer” list is now meaningless because all the Chinese labs have started obfuscating their progress.

A while ago there were a few labs in China in top 10 and they all attracted sanctions / bad attention. Now no Chinese lab report any data now

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leptons ◴[19 Nov 24 22:43 UTC] No.42188870[source]▶
I doubt the US Government is telling everyone about their fastest computer.
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1. buildbot ◴[20 Nov 24 00:49 UTC] No.42189713[source]▶
Unless it's like, air gapped powered by a naval nuclear reactor, I feel like someone would question why a random US gov building is drawing 20-30MW of power, and exhausting most of that as heat...
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2. ethbr1 ◴[20 Nov 24 02:47 UTC] No.42190405[source]▶
Aside from the utility, who would know? There's a lot of land out there, relative to the size of even a very large building.
3. remram ◴[20 Nov 24 03:00 UTC] No.42190474[source]▶
Not disagreeing with you but how could any building draw power without radiating most of it as heat?
4. wang_li ◴[20 Nov 24 17:05 UTC] No.42195968[source]▶
How do you tell the difference between a datacenter and a supercomputer cluster? According to wikipedia, the government data center in Utah is pulling 65 MW.