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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by wsxcde on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:12PM (#11939399)
> most of the owners of these in various national institutes are shopping for customers to justify their funding

What's the evidence for this claim? AFAIK the DoE INCITE awards -- which is how you get allocated time on the big supercomputers -- are quite competitive.

Also the supercomputers don't cost billions. Aurora, for example only costs $200 million, and if it lasts as long as its predecessor Mira did, that is $200 million spread over 6 years, which is a pretty small number.

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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by toomanybeersies on Monday June 20, 2016 @06:37PM (#11942149)
Your idea of a small number and my idea of a small number are evidently very different.
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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by yvdriess on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:04AM (#11945046)
If you look at supercomputing as a national strategic asset, that is a small number. The K-computer was around the price of a battleship: 1b USD
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