{"id":130697,"date":"2021-11-16T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/why-did-china-keep-its-exascale-supercomputers-quiet"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:22:17","slug":"why-did-china-keep-its-exascale-supercomputers-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/why-did-china-keep-its-exascale-supercomputers-quiet","title":{"rendered":"Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-did-china-keep-its-exascale-supercomputers-quiet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world\u2019s most powerful systems\u2014the Top 500. And there are no countries more inclined to throw themselves (and billions) into that competition this decade than the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the latest results were announced (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2021\/11\/15\/top500-warm-leftovers-while-we-await-the-exascale-feast\/\">much more on those here<\/a>) but notably absent, aside from the expected first exascale machine in the U.S., \u201cFrontier\u201d at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S., are China\u2019s results, which if published, would have shown two separate exascale-class machines.<\/p>\n<p>This would have been a major mainstream news story had China decided to publicize its results\u2013and on several fronts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world\u2019s most powerful systems\u2014the Top 500. And there are no countries more inclined to throw themselves (and billions) into that competition this decade than the U.S. and China. Today, the latest results were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130697","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}