
MareNostrum
The supercomputers I am showing here are powerful almost beyond human understanding. The can map every molecule of the billions on a human DNA string, scrutinize at the atomic level the collision between two pieces of plutonium in an exploding bomb; or sketch the gravitational pull of every star in the galaxy. There are not questions that humans could grapple with given plenty of time, a notebook and a sharp pencil. These computers are not amiable assistants they are distant and sinister; cold and inscrutable. They are omniscient and omnipresent and these are not qualities in which we find a simulacrum of ourselves – these are qualities that describe the Divine. The problem is not that these computers might one day resemble humans. It is that they already resemble gods.

Cray XT2

BlueGene/L

Apotheosis


I’m the only kid here on this site.
I want one for my room.
that can fit… in my… garage…
DESTROY THEM BEFORE THEY TAKE OVER THE HUMAN RACE.
SKYNET!!!
No, I am a kit too. Well these are pretty epic! I wish you could play ROBLOX on supercomputers that would make it an UBERCOMPUTER!
Kid I meant, well not exactly. But I am not an adult either…
Tsk, you forgot a hand held sharpener, pencils don’t last forever.
“The can map every molecule”
And misspelled they.
Son, I am disappoint.
Can I have one?
This is the start of the computers taking over the world!
No.
What about me? I’m a kid.