On 3/19/19, Punk <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:58:51 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Intel and the Department of Energy are building America's first exascale supercomputer, a computer capable of a quintillion calculations per second. https://tiny.iavian.net/ruih
In case it's not clear enough how corrupt intel is, that's another example. Then again, the USA is the land of unfettered crony capitalism...
It should also be underscored that the reason for American govcorp to 'build' that sort of thing is to serve the Global American Surveillance Police State.
Last but not least, that's yet another example of how The System is biased against individual freedom, and towards centralization and totalitarianism, aided by mindless worship of 'science' and 'technology'.
https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/intel-department-of-energy-aurora-first-ex...
Argonne is somewhat different compared to Oak Ridge, LLNL, and others that are more directly focused on military warfare, nuking, and murdering people. https://www.llnl.gov/news/doe-announces-request-proposal-llnls-next-generati... https://procurement.ornl.gov/rfp/CORAL2/ Crowdfund your own supercomputer AI that publishes shiny whitepapers mathematically proofing goverment is a waste. Or submit your own backdoored cryptocurrency miner in response to the RFP.