Not sure how good of a thing this is but US leads… The U.S. is home to five of the 10 most powerful supercomputers in the world and has 173 of the leading systems worldwide, according to the 64th edition of the TOP500. These supercomputers process information at mind-boggling speeds. We have the worlds top 3 best super computers as well. The top 10 countries in the world by computing power
Unfortunately they are probably used for the dumbest things imaginable, like mining bitcoin or generating AI slop
Waiting for the quantum hack of bitcoin. Hope it doesn't happen. A good rumor might be good for one of those 85% price dumps. Seymour Cray's former bodyguard used to drive a taxi in Panama City Beach. He said thlhe Euro weather people used a Cray supercomputer which made their weather forecasts better than ours. When I see those spaghetti hurricane models I try to identify which one is the Euro model. Usually not easy to do. I think the Euro model did the best job of forecasting hurricane Charlie 20 years ago. Hopefully NOAA now has the fastest computer.
UF’s supercomputer, Hipergator, which is a joint project with NVDIA, is 62nd in the world. When it was first brought online it was 21st. TOP500 List - June 2024 | TOP500 but UF just authorized an upgrade which should move us substantially back up that list. We are getting technology that isn’t even on the market yet. University of Florida to acquire one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers
Ah, the company that has made a fortune selling processors for crypto mining ... I was more on the nose than I thought
