Dibawah ini ada 2 postingan yg menarik utk di simak. Bila Amerika sudah ketinggal di bidang Solar System dan Turbin, demikian juga dengan komputer super cepat, yg memukul telak komputer super cepat milik Amerika ( Cray ).
Dengan adu duluan dibidang komputer, di dunia bisa dibilang pemainnya masih sedikit, Selain Amerika, China, dan gabungan negara Europa, nantinya akan menguntungkan masyarakat dunia, dan tidak perlu lagi mencari inovasi maupun pengembangan teknologi baru dengan jalan memakai perang fisik, karena semua kemampuan para ilmuwan beradu cepat bukan utk perang fisik melainkan perang dagang. Menurutku perang dagang yg dilakukan China jauh lebih effisien bukan saja disebabkan jumlah pembeli, melainkan China bergerak berdasarkan komunis, dimana berawal dari bokek, yg bila saat ini menjadi negara kaya, tidak akan pusing bila menjadi bokek lagi, berbeda dengan negara maju lainnya terutama Amerika dimana sejak perang dunia ke 2 sudah mulai makmur bila menjadi bokek tentunya akan berdampak ke masyarakat Amerika. Indonesia yg sebenarnya memiliki potensi sumber daya manusia cukup dikenal dunia, sayangnya tidak didukung pemerintah karena bugdet negara utk memberdayakan sumber daya manusia yg pintar tidak memungkinkan. Masih syukur UU yg baru di syah kan mampu membuat masyarakat bawah bila sakit tidak menjadi pusing, itu pun entah tahun ke berapa baru dilaksanakan, dengan kondisi ini bidang iptek hanya mampu membuat karya tulis, itupun dengan memakai kalkulasi diatas kertas, karena tidak memungkinkan utk melakukan uji coba. Komputasi sebuah micro processor sangatlah penting, dan bila kecepatan komputasi sudah sampai ke hitung an 1000 triliun komputasi dalam waktu 1 detik, bukanlah hal mudah, utk masyarakat IT, kendala dari kecepatan komputasi sebuah micro processor adalah di pendingin nya. Ilmuwan Amerika tentunya tidak akan tinggal diam, terutama dari pabrikan microprocessor. Sekali tertinggal membutuhkan waktu lama utk recovery, apalagi bila sudah masuk ke level mass production. Jangan heran bila nantinya micro processor buatan China bisa menjadi no 1, dan lembah Valley Amerika berpindah tempat, maklum utk mencetak seorang Bill Gates, Steve Jobs bukanlah karena pendidikan semata. sur. ps maaf bila tulisan menjadi panjang, bagi pengguna BB mohon maaf yah. +++++ by Dustin Ensinger on October 30, 2011 - 8:00am America is losing ground to both China and India in research and high-tech manufacturing, a fact that endangers the nation’s position in the world, according to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "Will we maintain America's innovation leadership, or are we going to fall behind? And I would say, let's seize this opportunity and we really can't afford not to," US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at the National Press Club, according to the Economic Times. In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14th place to second in the world in published research articles, trailing only the U.S. now. Two Chinese universities - Tsinghua and Peking - supply the most foreign Ph.D.s in American universities. “They come to the United States to get an education because the research in the United States is still the best in the world. But if they go back, then we lose a great deal,” Chu said. He also pointed out that last year, for the first time in history, the majority of patents awarded by the U.S. patent office went to foreigners - a sign of just how much technological prowess America is losing. Sitting at third right now, China’s patent filings are outpacing those in Japan and the U.S. so much so that by this time next year, China should be considered the world’s leader in innovation. In September, it was reported that China was outpacing the U.S. in clean energy production. China currently produces about half of the world’s demand for equipment used in building solar panels and wind turbines. China and its companies, heavily subsidized by their government, invested more than $30 billion in 2009 to produce energy technology designed to lower carbon dioxide emission. China is also the world’s leading producer of wind and solar power. "We face a choice today. Are we going to continue America's innovation leadership or are we going to fall behind?" Chu said. The world’s fastest high speed train is also in China, where the government is set to break ground on 30 new nuclear reactors. In 1998, America’s share of the world’s high-tech export market was 25 percent, while China sat at just 10 percent. Ten years later, America’s share had fallen to less than 15 percent, while China's share jumped to 20 percent. America, however, does not have to take a backseat to China, Chu said. With adequate investment in the right industries and technologies, America can remain the world’s leader in the 21st Century. It will take a concerted effort on the part of governments, the private sector and individual citizens, though. "America still has the opportunity to lead in a world that essentially needs a new industrial revolution," he said. "But time is running out." +++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/world/asia/china-unveils-supercomputer-based-on-its-own-microprocessor-chips.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=world China Has Homemade Supercomputer Gain By JOHN MARKOFF Published: October 28, 2011 China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States. Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organized by industry and government organizations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in eastern China. The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second — a petaflop — will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai. Currently, the Chinese are about three generations behind the state-of-art chip making technologies used by world leaders such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. “This is a bit of a surprise,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee and a leader of the Top500 project, a list of the world’s fastest computers. Last fall, another Chinese-based supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, created an international sensation when it was briefly ranked as the world’s fastest, before it was displaced in the spring by a rival Japanese machine, the K Computer, designed by Fujitsu. But the Tianhe was built from processor chips made by American companies, Intel and Nvidia, though its internal switching system was designed by Chinese engineers. Similarly, the K computer was based on Sparc chips, originally designed at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley. Dr. Dongarra said the Sunway’s theoretical peak performance was about 74 percent as fast as the fastest United States computer — the Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made by Cray Inc. That machine is currently the third fastest on the list. The Energy Department is planning three supercomputers that would run at 10 to 20 petaflops. And the United States is embarking on an effort to reach an exaflop, or one million trillion mathematical operations in a second, sometime before the end of the decade, though most computer scientists say the necessary technologies do not yet exist. To build such a computer from existing components would require immense amounts of electricity — roughly the amount produced by a medium-size nuclear power plant. In contrast, Dr. Dongarra said it was intriguing that the power requirements of the new Chinese supercomputer were relatively modest — about one megawatt, according to reports from the technical conference. The Tianhe supercomputer consumes about four megawatts and the Jaguar about seven. The ShenWei microprocessor appears to be based on some of the same design principles that are favored by Intel’s most advanced microprocessors, according to several supercomputer experts in the United States. But there is disagreement over whether the machine’s cooling technology is appropriate for designs that will be required by the exaflop-class supercomputers of the future. Photos of the new Sunway supercomputer reveal an elaborate water-cooling system that may be a significant advance in the design of the very fastest machines. “Getting this cooling technology correct is very, very difficult,” said Steven Wallach, chief scientist at Convey Computer, a Richardson, Tex., supercomputer firm. “This tells me that this is a serious design. This cooling technology could scale to exaflop. They are in the hunt to win.” ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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