Originally Posted by Wren
You sound a little whiny

This statement says something about you, and nothing about me, because it is impossible for me to sound like anything via text media.

Originally Posted by Wren
So they didn't recreate the wheel...they just used it better. And you are saying they used the wheel?

Tianhe-2 does not contain any revolutionary architectural features. It's just bigger. If you build a bigger wheel, have you learned anything?

I will grant you that building a $400M supercomputer does reflect a willingness to invest in R&D, because this computer is a tool that can be used for R&D purposes. But its construction does not reflect a major R&D achievement.

The number one consumer of supercomputing technologies, in terms of capacity and in number of installed systems in the top 500, remains the US.