Mexico Unveils Plans To Build Most Powerful Supercomputer In Latin America (apnews.com) 22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Mexico unveiled plans Wednesday to build what it claims will be Latin America's most powerful supercomputer -- a project the government says will help the country capitalize on the rapidly evolving uses of artificial intelligence and exponentially expand the country's computing capacity. Dubbed "Coatlicue" for the Mexica goddess considered the earth mother, the supercomputer would be seven times more powerful than the region's current leader in Brazil, Jose Merino, head of the Telecommunications and Digital Transformation Agency.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news briefing that the location for the project had not been decided yet, but construction will begin next year. "We're very excited," said Sheinbaum, an academic and climate scientist. "It is going to allow Mexico to fully get in on the use of artificial intelligence and the processing of data that today we don't have the capacity to do." Merino said that Mexico's most powerful supercomputer operates at 2.3 petaflops -- a unit to measure computing speed, meaning it can perform one quadrillion operations per second. Coatlicue would have a capacity of 314 petaflops.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news briefing that the location for the project had not been decided yet, but construction will begin next year. "We're very excited," said Sheinbaum, an academic and climate scientist. "It is going to allow Mexico to fully get in on the use of artificial intelligence and the processing of data that today we don't have the capacity to do." Merino said that Mexico's most powerful supercomputer operates at 2.3 petaflops -- a unit to measure computing speed, meaning it can perform one quadrillion operations per second. Coatlicue would have a capacity of 314 petaflops.
Excellent if they find a use for it (Score:3)
I know of several places that have built "the biggest supercomputer in..." some arbitrary geographical area where the said supercomputer basically does nothing except getting obsolete.
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If it came on line now it would be the 10th fastest supercomputer in the world.
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Hopefully they won't be running mcnpx in violation of the ToS, then.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if cheeto ordered the various national labs to start mining crypto.
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Of course. And also ordered paying for it by "savings" from all that soshulism, like roads and so on. Just as long as any loss is still public and any profit is kept private.
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"Just as long as any loss is still public and any profit is kept private"
Better not happen. That's the future dreamt of by American financial companies. How embarrassing would it be to have Mexico get their first?
Sounds like the US needs another moonshot.
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Or another New Deal, except that to get to the last one the US needed the Great Depression.
Re:Excellent if they find a use for it (Score:4, Interesting)
Ask Stephen Miller. There are White Folk as far as his myopic eyes can see in America. The U.S. got rich and powerful because it welcomed (with hiccups) all races, nationalities, and creeds. Leave to the Maggots to turn that strength into something they hate.
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Wait until you look at some old maps.
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Yeah. Its like here in Australia where somebody claims to have the greatest XXX in the southern hemisphere. Not a lot of competition. Not even Mexico.
We have like Brazil and South Africa. The only other developed nation is New Zealand. To be fair, they have the toothbrush fence.
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To be fair, they have the toothbrush fence
I had to look that up, but it is real!
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Here is the link English Wikipedia article on the New Zealand toothbrush fence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Learning to write supercomputer software (Score:2)
If it's attached to a university, it can still be useful for people to learn to write software targeting supercomputers. Dealing with the distributed memory and extreme parallelism requires a different approach to designing software. You don't need the fastest supercomputer in the world to use as a training setup.
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Just to repeat your downvoted post, I guess we have a Maggot with mod points:
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Sheinbaum earned a bachelor's degree in physics at UNAM in 1989, a master's degree in 1994, and a Ph.D. in energy engineering in 1995.
Contrast that to the USA.
Get religion (Score:1)
Re: Get religion (Score:2, Offtopic)
I've got a proverb for you: Desert myths concocted by Middle Eastern pedophile goat rapists that lick rocks is no basis for a society.
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I see where you are going, but unless you include the full quote, it just looks like you are being a lame Xtian nationalist.
Besides, I am more of an Ezekiel 23:20 guy myself... which is also relevant to the Xtian nationalists if they ever bothered to read their holy book.