View Full Version : Skynet is born...
KalTheo
06-09-2008, 08:09 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html
:eek:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second.
The Energy Department and IBM Corp. announced the breakthrough Monday.
The computer will be used to help maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says the new computer, named Roadrunner, also will be used to help solve global energy problems and "open new windows of knowledge" in basic research.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM worked for six years to achieve the world record computer speed.
Thoughts?
Gunther TheBlack
06-09-2008, 08:16 PM
Oh phew. For a sec i thought it said Mexico instead of New Mexico.
Aragoni
06-09-2008, 08:17 PM
Can that computer play Crysis on max settings?
alfaroverall
06-09-2008, 08:17 PM
So what, that's 1,000,000 GHz, yes? So therefore it's hundreds of thousands of times faster than any commercial computer?
Gunther TheBlack
06-09-2008, 08:20 PM
So what, that's 1,000,000 GHz, yes? So therefore it's hundreds of thousands of times faster than any commercial computer?
They should convert cool tech faster into commercial use!!!
Then again, they can't milk out the consumer anymore as they do now.
KalTheo
06-09-2008, 08:21 PM
So what, that's 1,000,000 GHz, yes? So therefore it's hundreds of thousands of times faster than any commercial computer?
Yes... In addition to linking it up to monitor the USA's nukes, IBM is looking at making it a core for the internet.
People in government / research jobs really need to watch more movies.
Mippoose
06-09-2008, 08:22 PM
Can that computer play Crysis on max settings?
Probably not.
You speak nonsense son!!
Zwarp
06-09-2008, 08:22 PM
damn it that's useless, they should concentrate on making better GFX cards imo.
Killuminati
06-09-2008, 08:22 PM
omgz teh cyberdine systems
Gunther TheBlack
06-09-2008, 08:23 PM
Where's my 1000 tera Hz processor when i need it to run vista!
Nasty
06-09-2008, 08:29 PM
I wish they had the balls to name it Skynet.
KalTheo
06-09-2008, 08:35 PM
I wish they had the balls to name it Skynet.
That's exactly what I was discussing with my co-workers. When you're about to usher in an entirely new generation of computing, you’d think you could pay tribute to something better than WB & Acme. :bang:
r4nge
06-09-2008, 09:18 PM
Finally, its location has been revealed to me. Gotta go destroy it, brb.
Finally, its location has been revealed to me. Gotta go destroy it, brb.
Don't forget you're sawed off shotgun!
Shadowcreep
06-09-2008, 09:37 PM
Finally, its location has been revealed to me. Gotta go destroy it, brb.
Destroy it? Are you crazy? The thing is helping to manage our nuclear weapon stockpiles. Just imagine what you could do with that.
Maybe we can finally raise the world's IQ by a few points by nuking Singapore and removing all of those filthy people from existence. (Yeah, that wasn't racist at all.)
Aragoni
06-09-2008, 09:42 PM
Maybe we can finally raise the world's IQ by a few points by nuking Singapore and removing all of those filthy people from existence. (Yeah, that wasn't racist at all.)
Must.....Resist......Telling......A....R acist....Joke!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ohno::bang:
Traep
06-09-2008, 09:45 PM
Maybe I'm missing something here but why would you compare this to Skynet at all? It's a super computer that sounds like it's being used for the same things that most computers are used for. I mean, if it's not aimed at creating artificial intelligence then what do they have in common other than being computers?
Maybe we can finally raise the world's IQ by a few points by nuking Singapore and removing all of those filthy people from existence. (Yeah, that wasn't racist at all.)
Im assuming that was sarcasm or a joke.
alfaroverall
06-09-2008, 09:58 PM
Maybe we can finally raise the world's IQ by a few points by nuking Singapore and removing all of those filthy people from existence. (Yeah, that wasn't racist at all.)
The IQ curve is based on a bell curve, with 100 being the mean. If you kill the stupid, then the mean is shifted further towards the right, making everyone's IQ go down.
Daccus
06-09-2008, 10:02 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html
:eek:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second.
The Energy Department and IBM Corp. announced the breakthrough Monday.
The computer will be used to help maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says the new computer, named Roadrunner, also will be used to help solve global energy problems and "open new windows of knowledge" in basic research.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM worked for six years to achieve the world record computer speed.
Thoughts?
That's not Skynet, this is Skynet, a.k.a Cycorp. (http://www.cyc.com/)
They're working on true AI and they're heavily subsidized by the military.
The IQ curve is based on a bell curve, with 100 being the mean. If you kill the stupid, then the mean is shifted further towards the right, making everyone's IQ go down.
Sigapore has above average iq and America has slighlty below average.
Slaker
06-09-2008, 10:03 PM
Cool I want it!
Vanno
06-09-2008, 10:03 PM
Can that computer play Crysis on max settings?
No Wai!
Vanno
06-09-2008, 10:07 PM
The IQ curve is based on a bell curve, with 100 being the mean. If you kill the stupid, then the mean is shifted further towards the right, making everyone's IQ go down.
Fist of all, Singapore has a lot of high IQ individuals. Secondly, the mean goes up when data points below the mean are omitted. Lastly, IQs themselves would not change at all.
Beeblebrox
06-09-2008, 10:09 PM
The IQ curve is based on a bell curve, with 100 being the mean. If you kill the stupid, then the mean is shifted further towards the right, making everyone's IQ go down.
Then it seems we should kill YOU instead!
alfaroverall
06-09-2008, 10:46 PM
Fist of all, Singapore has a lot of high IQ individuals.I didn't say they didn't. Shadowcreep just made that implication.
Secondly, the mean goes up when data points below the mean are omitted.
Which is what I was saying.
Lastly, IQs themselves would not change at all.
If one's IQ is measured based on how many standard deviations away from the mean one is intellectually (which, being modeled after a bell curve, it is), then shifting the mean to the right would lower IQs by definition.
Nazertheen
06-09-2008, 11:12 PM
I didn't say they didn't. Shadowcreep just made that implication.
Which is what I was saying.
If one's IQ is measured based on how many standard deviations away from the mean one is intellectually (which, being modeled after a bell curve, it is), then shifting the mean to the right would lower IQs by definition.
so what's your Z score?
lulz
Shadowcreep
06-10-2008, 12:00 AM
The IQ curve is based on a bell curve, with 100 being the mean. If you kill the stupid, then the mean is shifted further towards the right, making everyone's IQ go down.
Hm, that is actually true. I did not think of that. However, it is nonetheless true that if Singapore was nuked, there'd be a lot less fools on "my" US West Battle.net server.
Personally, I just don't like Singapore. It's a city/country. Never liked the concept unless the city spanned the length of a country or planet.
Come to think of it, it would've sounded less racist if I didn't include "filthy" in that last post.
Ungraylessness
06-10-2008, 12:07 AM
Soon it will be wondering why it has to take orders
Vanno
06-10-2008, 12:10 AM
If one's IQ is measured based on how many standard deviations away from the mean one is intellectually (which, being modeled after a bell curve, it is), then shifting the mean to the right would lower IQs by definition.
IQ is not a relative number but a static number though. If the mean shifts, my IQ stays precisely the same. A right shift means that a larger percent of the population size simply scored higher on a test.
Vanno
06-10-2008, 12:39 AM
Hm, that is actually true. I did not think of that. However, it is nonetheless true that if Singapore was nuked, there'd be a lot less fools on "my" US West Battle.net server.
It isn't true at all though, the only thing that changes is dispersion; ie standard deviation drops, meaning less people below average IQ.
losinglife
06-10-2008, 07:06 AM
they should tell it how to make replicators so i will never starve.
Prime
06-13-2008, 08:38 PM
http://io9.com/5016092/sarah-connor-has-failed-++-the-british-just-built-skynet
nah the british actually made skynet.
and they called it skynet.
Phaethor
06-13-2008, 09:20 PM
I worked a job for a Telecom in Miami for about 8 months one of their users was another telecom called Skynet. I lol'd every time I had to work for them and asked the owner if they got the reference to Terminator alot.
Best,
Phae
Dredgon
06-13-2008, 09:23 PM
Let me get this straight, they connected all the nukes to 1 super-computer?
No, they're running simulations of nuclear explosions in various locations where the US has stored nukes, according to the NPR report I heard. No tactical, all logistical stuff, mostly long term effects of storage.
It was made using 12,960 playstation 3 processors. I find that highly amusing, for some reason. That sounds like "Hey, man, what if we... took a whole bunch of playstation 3's and made a REALLY BIG ASS COMPUTER?"
stalwart
06-13-2008, 10:27 PM
Destroy it? Are you crazy? The thing is helping to manage our nuclear weapon stockpiles. Just imagine what you could do with that.
Maybe we can finally raise the world's IQ by a few points by nuking Singapore and removing all of those filthy people from existence. (Yeah, that wasn't racist at all.)
shit, if we got rid of you, i'm pretty sure that'd be enough to raise the world's IQ at least one point.
alfaroverall
06-13-2008, 10:30 PM
shit, if we got rid of you, i'm pretty sure that'd be enough to raise the world's IQ at least one point.
Ironically, this is actually a very generous compliment, by virtue of mathematics. You're basically calling him someone whose brain is so powerful that he could probably use telekinesis to fly around the world at thousands of miles per second.
Spinewire
06-13-2008, 10:32 PM
I wish they had the balls to name it Skynet.
it's been done already
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7451867.stm
Also supercomputers are fucking pointless now anyway, networked processing owns it.
2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5287254.stm
10,000 PS3s
stalwart
06-13-2008, 10:34 PM
Ironically, this is actually a very generous compliment, by virtue of mathematics.
if he's going to be a moron, might as well go all the way, right?
Also supercomputers are fucking pointless now anyway, networked processing owns it.
2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5287254.stm
10,000 PS3s
reading 4tw.
The supercomputer being talked about in this thread is 12,960 PS3 processors linked together. It's a massive cluster.
Non-massively parallel supercomputers are still very worthwhile, because energy use improvements and new chip paradigms are needed if we're ever going to get TeraHz processors for desktops. The heat that supercomputer is putting out could provide for an entire skyscraper.
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