[Jolly]

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This projects success rate seems rater questionable, since it depends on so many government facilities to co-operate together to achieve such a landmark project of big proportions. Furthermore, the political landscape being the unstable landfill of shit it is, the project will probably either be buried under bureocracy, killed by the Congress or revoked depending on the results of the next presidential vote. The perfect parallel of that is the Star Wars race during the Cold War, the only reason it succeeded faster than the Russians after they got a massive head-start, was because the organizations in question answered to the president along with the budget being kept off by the fangs of the congress, which pretty much allowed for the fast development and results of the space program.

Bigger questions raise the operational order of who gets to use such a powerful computer, how will they distribute who will be able to use that, for what project and for how long. Like the article suggested, the demand for such a proficient supercomputer is high ranging from military to medicine and neuroscience and since this is mostly a government led project, it will be obvious that it will mostly serve for military purposes and then be buried under a mountain of paper work and bureocracy.

Furthermore, what point is there in just raising the amount of computational power that supercomputer can manage? Weren't scientist researching about the creation of a quantum computer whichs properties could achieve a far more significant results that a common cluster ever could? Fun fact: It toke the worlds fastest supercomputer two and a half days to to simulate ONE SECOND of the full brain. One, meager, second. Even if they could achieve the project, the results probably wouldn't make that much of a difference, considering its applications.

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