Today we visited the super computer
By youless
@youless (112586)
Guangzhou, China
May 20, 2017 7:46am CST
In fact until today I just learned one of the best super computer Tianhe-2 locates in my city. Today we had a visted there.
Now I have a question. Since a normal computer can create bitcoins, then super computer shall create a lot of bitcoins in a short time. Will they do so or they only focus on doing something that good for human beings?
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
21 May 17
It is my joking to use it to make bitcoins. Of course it can create bitcoins, but it is not worth to the cost. I heard the water and electricity will cost about 70,000,000 yuan per year. In our country there are six locations for the super computers. Besides Guangzhou, it is also available in Shenzhen, Tianjin, Jinan, Changsha and perhaps Chongqing. I am not sure about the last one.
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@prashu228 (37524)
• India
20 May 17
wow i never saw such a huge computer..really nice 
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
20 May 17
Computers will not cater to human beings, they will eventually do as they please I think Youless.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
20 May 17
Why do some of the doors have blue and some have red lights running along them? There is a lot of free space in the room where the computer is, are they planning to expand, adding more compute power or storage capacity? Is this in a basement part of the building? Not many people about on your tour of the Supercomputer.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 May 17
This is a very huge room and what you saw is just a little part of it. I think it needs more space for many reasons, such as the heating, fire accidents, repairment etc. This is not a basement, it is a building. I heard that they would have another floor for the storage later soon.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
22 May 17
I've no idea what it's purpose is as I've never heard of these before. Didn't it show somewhere what they are being used for?
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
22 May 17
You can find more information here
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "High-performance computing" redirects here. For narrower definitions of HPC, see High-throughput computing and Many-task computing. For other uses, see Supercomputer (disambiguation). IBM's
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
23 May 17
@youless
I'm not that interested that I'll bother with that link, but you may want to include it on your post for those that have more time to look it up.
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@jobelbojel (36041)
• Philippines
20 May 17
Then that is nice if they can create bitcoins. I stopped mining for weeks now.
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