USA Supercomputer DESTROYS Competitors
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·2019-05-06
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can we can we do it like a new girl can we have like a frame and just be like
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who's that guy it's alex
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china has held the trophy for the world's fastest super computer for the
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last five years but now the united states has climbed to the top once again
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with summit an ai-powered supercomputer developed as a joint project between ibm
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NVIDIA and oakridge national laboratories in tennessee the previous
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champ has 93 petaflops of processing power while summit hits a staggering 200
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petaflops meaning it can process 200
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000 trillion calculations per second the
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system includes four thousand six hundred and eight compute servers each
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housing two power power9 cpus which use
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non-x86 chips designed for server and ai
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workloads and six NVIDIA tesla v100 gpus giving it more
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than 10 petabytes of memory that's 10
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000 terabytes i haven't taken that many bytes of anything
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in my whole life we've all had the experience of
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revisiting an old game and being surprised that the graphics suck way
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worse than we remember like star wars battlefront 2 like
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oh but now NVIDIA is trying to keep that from
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happening to future games or at least that's what their new patent
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infinite resolution textures suggests oversampling old games to super high
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resolutions we use today can introduce artifacts that look yucky
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and that's because the textures used in those games were designed for a particular scale in mind the new
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infinite resolution textures though use scalable vector graphics that
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automatically adapt to the screen resolution the game is running on so i
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guess when i'm playing rocket league on my 16k
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720hz monitor in 2030 the graphics will
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suck but at least there won't be any scaling artifacts
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neat but not all patents are cool
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google is seeking a patent that will give it broad rights over compression
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technique that's been open source for years asymmetric numeral systems compression
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was created by dr geroslaw duda
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from the jaguar why would you do this to me james
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university in poland who dedicated the technique to the
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public domain but since the technique was introduced
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in 2014 facebook apple and google have all
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created software based on it and now google wants to patent one of their
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specific applications a video encoder in this case which they say relies on
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additional work from google engineers but duda argues that google's patent
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just applies ans to a conventional video decoder and doesn't want to see it go
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through unless google guarantees that the patent will become open for all to
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use and pinky swears don't count you gotta spit on your head
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i'm not spitting on my hands brothers
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or in the link below quick quick quick computex is over now but there's still
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some stuff to be excited about in the afterglow like new prototype coolers
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from Noctua the prototypes focus on improving either motherboard clearance
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to make room for that tall RGB RAM you've been eyeing or raw performance
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with extra heat pipes and increased surface area oh and chromax coolers that
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are going to be available in all black in case you like your pc to run in night
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mode the first 1000 flamethrowers from elon musk's boring company made into the
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hands of customers on saturday this first round of units had to be picked up
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in person at the company's hq in la while the remaining 19 000 due to
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customs rules will be shipped with a new name on the box
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not a flamethrower silly rules deserve silly workarounds
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future apple watches will be reportedly less physically clicky as these physical
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buttons will be swapped for solid state haptic buttons all of the iphone 7's
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home button it's unclear whether the new buttons which will be in the same
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configuration as before will appear on their new watches this fall or not until
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2019 so watch watch out yeah i hope this isn't
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the ending pun ah is it yeah
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oh that was amazing wow oh but that wasn't
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the end e3 is happening now and already a bunch of sweet games have been
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announced including halo infinite which runs on 343's new slip space engine and
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a new gears of war game that's just called gears 5. and even a tease of
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bethesda's elder scrolls vi aka skyrim 2
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if you're one of those gen z kids Jake yeah Jake
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oh and battlefield 5 is going to have a battle royale mode because
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it's 2018
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they are awesome but we only need pubg
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so that's probably a good spot to end it with a broken game so thanks for
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