{"id":11617,"date":"2014-06-23T22:18:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:56","slug":"is-the-end-of-moores-law-slowing-the-worlds-supercomputing-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/is-the-end-of-moores-law-slowing-the-worlds-supercomputing-race","title":{"rendered":"Is the End of Moore\u2019s Law Slowing the World\u2019s Supercomputing Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/bobmcmillan\/\" rel=\"author\">Robert McMillan<\/a> \u2014 Wired<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Every six months, a team of supercomputing academics compiles a list of the most powerful computers on the planet. It\u2019s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/top500.org\/\">Top500<\/a> list, and it has become a competition of sorts. National labs vie against universities, military facilities, NASA, and even temporary cloud-based supercomputers\u2014all to see who\u2019s building the worlds\u2019 largest number-crunching machines.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the machine on the top of the list is Tihane-2, a Chinese system that can perform 33.86 quadrillion calculations per second. But here\u2019s the thing. Tihane-2 was on top back in November of 2013, and a year ago too. In fact, when you look at the top 10 machines on the June list, there\u2019s only one new entry\u2013an unidentified Cray supercomputer, operated by the U.S. government. It\u2019s ranked tenth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/06\/supercomputer_race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McMillan \u2014 Wired Every six months, a team of supercomputing academics compiles a list of the most powerful computers on the planet. It\u2019s called the Top500 list, and it has become a competition of sorts. National labs vie against universities, military facilities, NASA, and even temporary cloud-based supercomputers\u2014all to see who\u2019s building the worlds\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64961,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/64961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}