U.S.A. Loses 3rd Place in TOP500 Supercomputer Standings... To Switzerland?

[timta2]

I'll admit it's mostly assumption based on the fact that the highest end supercomputer in our lineup, the Titan, has not seen an upgrade since 2012.

After doing some Googling on the subject, I've found a lot of "Obama wants to increase supercomputer funding" and plenty of "Trump, Republicans, and The Heritage foundation want cuts to The Department of Energy and science.". Feel free to Google it yourself and see what you come up with.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...er-to-build-first-ever-exascale-supercomputer

https://www.top500.org/news/trump-administration-preps-plan-for-huge-cuts-to-department-of-energy/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...eing-department-energy-for-spending-cuts.html

Overall it looks like The Department Of Energy spending has remained about average, adjusted for inflation, since the 1960's, with a 5+% drop in the budget this year.

Too bad we can't use some of that $825 BILLION Dollars a year, that we spend on the military, for supercomputing.

 

[R-T-B]

Too bad we can't use some of that $825 BILLION Dollars a year, that we spend on the military, for supercomputing.

I fully agree with that.

Thanks for doing some google-fu research on my admitedly somewhat baseless assumption.

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

After doing some Googling on the subject, I've found a lot of "Obama wants to increase supercomputer funding" and plenty of "Trump, Republicans, and The Heritage foundation want cuts to The Department of Energy and science.". Feel free to Google it yourself and see what you come up with.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...er-to-build-first-ever-exascale-supercomputer

https://www.top500.org/news/trump-administration-preps-plan-for-huge-cuts-to-department-of-energy/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...eing-department-energy-for-spending-cuts.html

Overall it looks like The Department Of Energy spending has remained about average, adjusted for inflation, since the 1960's, with a 5+% drop in the budget this year.

Too bad we can't use some of that $825 BILLION Dollars a year, that we spend on the military, for supercomputing.

or how about we return the money to the originals owners? As i showed there is 100s of billions of waste in the government and never a single reason to increase the spending considering waste is rampant.

I wouldn't be surprised if i get censored for posting a shocking idea of removing waste and returning the money to the rightful owners and stop the generational theft called 20 trillion dollars of debt and 100s of trillions of dollars of liabilities.