I wonder what the process is for an organisation, after setting up their machine, to run benchmarks and be able to claim a spot among the top500. Is there a set of benchmarks that I could run, say, on my homelab cluster to tell me how far from the 500th spot my gear is?
The DOE has also historically been the key funding source for supercomputers; not least because that kind of compute capacity makes it possible to simulate (in great detail) the function of new nuclear weapons. The fact that China now has the new number one supercomputer may well indicate that China is indeed advancing its own nuclear weapons program, which Beijing has engaged in also not to be left behind the US and Russia.
I wonder what the process is for an organisation, after setting up their machine, to run benchmarks and be able to claim a spot among the top500. Is there a set of benchmarks that I could run, say, on my homelab cluster to tell me how far from the 500th spot my gear is?
Is the US DOE the only department looking after Supercomputers ?
Why pour more $$ into DOE
The DOE has also historically been the key funding source for supercomputers; not least because that kind of compute capacity makes it possible to simulate (in great detail) the function of new nuclear weapons. The fact that China now has the new number one supercomputer may well indicate that China is indeed advancing its own nuclear weapons program, which Beijing has engaged in also not to be left behind the US and Russia.
I really, really, can’t blame China for executing that failsafe policy, in case everything goes wrong.