World's Fastest Supercomputer Goes Online

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The fastest supercomputer in the world has officially launched at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California. The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build and will handle various sensitive and classified tasks including securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons in the absence of underground testing

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El Capitan: New Supercomputer Is the Fastest in the World Discussion

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aka Herr Musk's new toy.

Also, the Retort Hamster is complaining that the 'handshake' with El Capitan was WAY too fast, and that she didn't climax.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-09 02:24 PM

The supercomputer, called "El Capitan,"

Mexican-sounding. Maybe rename it to Trumpenstein ... Hmmm, no ... too Jewish.

"The Reich Stuff"?

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-11 11:06 AM

This is the first of the D.F. Jones Colossus trilogy about a super AI computer taking over the US nuclear arsenal which I highly recommend. Felon Musk has been making the film version of Colossus unavailable to view on streaming services.

Felon Musk has his own super AI computer called "Project Colossus" in Memphis, TN. See story here: link text

Nothing good will come of this for the American people.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-11 03:46 PM

Below is China's super AI computer. You wonder when all the AI computers become self-aware and begin communicating with each other like in the Colossus novel.

Tianhe-3 or "Xingyi" was unveiled in January 2023 with a rumored performance of 2.05 exaflops peak and 1.57 exaflops sustained on High-Performance LINPACK.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-11 04:15 PM

Just the thing for Fortnite players.

I recall the scene in "The Brother From Another Planet" when a female video game player complained to our protagonist that the video games she played were too slow. He made them speed up while she played. She got so excited she climaxed ...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-11 06:04 PM

We've seen this movie before....

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - I'm Sorry, Dave

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#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-11 06:13 PM

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