Why does one build a supercomputer with over 600 processors? Funnyhub looked at the world’s top seven supercomputers, and I’ll summarize the findings here:
Four of the seven do weapons testing.
Simulations of nuclear attacks. Which is bizarre, cuz if we get nuked, well, the entire world is pretty much screwed. So we need a supercomputer to calculate how screwed we are.
The other three of the seven do biological testing.
human genome research, weather forecasting, drug research, biological simulations, protein folding, biochemical processes involving proteins, and emulating half of a mouse brain.
That’s right. It takes the greatest supercomputer in the world peaking at 360 Teraflops by using 65,536 processors to emulate HALF of a mouse’s brain.
So let me ask you this. Did this mouse brain come from the result of an accidental explosion? It takes 65,536 computer processors DESIGNED by man to emulate a mouse brain. So how did a mouse brain just accidentally get created by a freak explosion? Clearly to emulate a mouse brain, we have to DESIGN super advanced processors. These processors don’t get built by something exploding and then letting them sit for millions of years. The mouse brain didn’t come from an explosion. It was designed by a greater being. A super duper incredibly smart being. We all know who that is.
Ok, enough of that rant. There’s one more use of the third fastest supercomputer: “Blue Gene/W main priority is to perform production science computations including biological simulations, protein folding and other projects created by worldwide IBM scientists.“
“and other projects created by worldwide IBM scientists.” Yeah, we know they are just making super cool video games. Or a computer to calculate the probability of super cool ninjas taking over the world.