Quote of the Day: Chinese professor on Tianhe-1 supercomputer

“I am not saying it is utterly useless. It can play video games.”
UNNAMED CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PROFESSOR, ON THE UTILITY OF CHINA’S TIANHE-1 SUPERCOMPUTER.
China’s Tianhe-1 (天河1), formerly the world’s fastest supercomputer, contains mostly chips from Intel and Nvidia. Critics have said the Tianhe-1 project is merely yet another example of state vanity.
Read full article on Chinese innovation from the Financial Times here.
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