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China claims supercomputer crown

Obviously super computers would be useless for Crysis since "super computer" really means super parallel computer.
Crysis only uses the first 2 cores / threads and I doubt those 14,000 CPU's are anywhere near as powerful as core i3/5/7.
 
Obviously super computers would be useless for Crysis since "super computer" really means super parallel computer.
Crysis only uses the first 2 cores / threads and I doubt those 14,000 CPU's are anywhere near as powerful as core i3/5/7.
I wonder what such a powerful machine would be used for then? I imagine something so fast could even brute force passwords with pretty good encryption? Or am I way off with this one?
 
I wonder what such a powerful machine would be used for then? I imagine something so fast could even brute force passwords with pretty good encryption? Or am I way off with this one?

Physics / medical / galaxy and whatever other useless kinds of research and calculations.
 
I wonder what such a powerful machine would be used for then? I imagine something so fast could even brute force passwords with pretty good encryption? Or am I way off with this one?

brute forcing certainly, knowing china and the internetz, it's prolly to hack the webz and take total control :p
 
I wonder what such a powerful machine would be used for then? I imagine something so fast could even brute force passwords with pretty good encryption? Or am I way off with this one?

A billion of these supercomputers would still take 10^40 ish years to crack a 256bit key, assuming the password was strong. I'd imagine they use it for physics or chemistry simulations.
 
Based in China's National Center for Supercomputing in the city of Tianjin, the computer has already started to do work for the local weather service and the National Offshore Oil Corporation.

Thats what its currently being used for, same as most super computers out there, either for weather, scientific research and so on. Basically immense mathematical stuff, our little comps would take years to do.
 
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