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...it's a proverbial win by a mile!

122 p/flops of processing power vs. the now second place of 93 p/flops.
US supercomputer knocks out Chinese champ to reclaim HPC crown
But China has more machines overall in the TOP500 list.
I'd love to run Excel and Power Query on this monster! :evilgrin: :rofl:
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Calculations would finish before you even started them...
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HansV wrote:Calculations would finish before you even started them...
:rofl: That's scary!!!
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HansV wrote:Calculations would finish before you even started them...
You mean a bit like...
There was a young man called Bright
Who could travel much faster than light
He left one day
In a relative way
And arrived the previous night

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That's a great limb-o-rick. :thumbup:
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In my day the bus and tag cables* (see the second box in) went into the flalse flooring, not into the roof space!

* Yes, they were about an inch in diameter
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Even back in the 1970's we had both floor and ceiling cabling John. One organization I worked for had an entire floor that was reserved for IT cabling!
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AH, the days of "big iron!"
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All those boxes are just for show. In the back corner there's a little old man who's very good with an abacus. :grin:
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:laugh:
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Jay Freedman wrote:All those boxes are just for show. In the back corner there's a little old man who's very good with an abacus. :grin:
A bit like the Imp-powered devices of the Discworld
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Or the Flintstones:
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But we already know the answer, don't we? It's 42.
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Argus wrote:But we already know the answer, don't we? It's 42.
Yes, but that took a rather larger computer, as described by Slartibartfast.
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Rudi wrote:.I'd love to run Excel and Power Query on this monster!
Yes, but ...
You'd still end up staring at a message box that read "Microsoft Excel has stopped responding ..." :flee:

If memory serves me well, the IBM 1401 had a basic program instruction cycle of 11.5 microseconds, and we NEVER got that annoying message ...
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stuck wrote: You mean a bit like...
There was a young man called Bright
Who could travel much faster than light
He left one day
In a relative way
And arrived the previous night

Ken
Extending your thoughts Ken ... what would happen if indeed you arrived before you left and then decided you didn't want to leave :grin:
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RonH wrote:Extending your thoughts Ken ... what would happen if indeed you arrived before you left and then decided you didn't want to leave :grin:
"You can log off any time you like
But you can never leave..."

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John Gray wrote: "You can log off any time you like
But you can never leave..."

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:laugh: Love it !!! :clapping: :thumbup:
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
Rudi wrote:.I'd love to run Excel and Power Query on this monster!
Yes, but ...
You'd still end up staring at a message box that read "Microsoft Excel has stopped responding ..." :flee:

If memory serves me well, the IBM 1401 had a basic program instruction cycle of 11.5 microseconds, and we NEVER got that annoying message ...
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I'm quite sure you never got that message on the 1401... considering that the 1401 was withdrawn from the market in 1971 and Excel was released (on Macintosh) in 1985. :evilgrin:
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