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Of all the scientific discoveries that made life easier to live, from making medicines to going to space, were done without supercomputers.Firstly, I sincerely respect all seniors, thus please do not take this personally.
Sorry Oldman, I need to correct you on same factual data coming from the HPC universe (=High Performance Computing).
Basic truth ~ Supercomputer Performance is absolutely Super Critical towards one nation progresses on Scientistic and Technological development. ~ Supercomputer Performance is the Ultimate Force Multipliers.
1) Americans have lost the Supercomputer race for 7 times in a row.
2) Americans have lost the Supercomputer race since ( JUN 2013 ), 36 months ago.
3) PRC Supercomputer TianHe-2 is 200+% faster than American--Cream of the Crop--supercomputer Titan--XK since JUN 2013.
4) IBM original estimate to beat TianHe-2 was JUN 2017.
5) Now, suddenly out of nowhere ~ CHINA Sunway TaiHu Supercomputer beat the crap out of American--Cream of the Crop--supercomputer Titan--XK by at least ( 500+% FASTER ).
Frankly, this must be truly demoralizing for American Supercomputer engineers and scientists, because you are working so hard to beat TianHe-2. ~ Then shockingly your goalpost move away from you by a distant factor of 5.
6) Deep inside you and all sanely American Supercomputer engineers and scientists absolutely know -- that CHINA Supercomputer engineers and scientists -- who has been known to outwork and outcompete all American engineers and scientists ~ will produce even FASTER machine than Sunway TaiHu by JUN 2017.
It is highly probable that by 2020, ...PRC Supercomputer Engineers and Scientists will successfully produce the next generation EXAscale Supercomputer ( 11x faster than Sunway TaiHu ). PRC may call these TianHe-5 or Sunway TaiHu-3. ~ Meanwhile the most optimistic American estimate to produce the EXAscale machine is 2023.
Where was China from the start of the 20th century to the end of the same ? Nowhere to be found. The Chinese scientists and engineers you absurdly claimed to superior, or do you mean to say racially superior, learned their trades from the West. Even how to build supercomputers, China learned from the West. The more powerful a supercomputer, the more likely it will be used for scientific fields so esoteric and whose results so difficult to apply that the supercomputer is often more an object to brag about than a serious tool. So far, China learned how to design and build supercomputers, and China is STILL learning how to use it.
Am currently in the semiconductor industry. So where is the Chinese equivalent of the NAND cell ? You did not know that the NAND cell came from JPN ? And the JPNese did not need a supercomputer to invent it ?
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/3d-xpoint-unveiled-video.html
https://www.micron.com/about/emerging-technologies/3d-xpoint-technology
I used to work for Micron. I can tell everyone here right now that what Micron and Intel jointly developed are being sampled by the likes of IBM, Google, Facebook, and supercomputer designers. Many companies are already redesigning their computers architecture around 3D Xpoint technology. Where is China's supercomputers in the semiconductor industry ?
When China's supercomputers are being used to study global climate, predicting earthquakes, or things in that line, China will be the good scientist and share her findings. Those things do not affect everyone but actually humanity itself. The outputs from supercomputers are not readily applicable for yrs, even decades to come. In the meantime, the US will continue to be ahead of China in fields that do not require supercomputers but human creativity and ingenuity, the two things that China still struggles with.
Of course you are not sure about it. You never served and never seriously studied military history and analyses.We got spanked by Viets, not so sure about that but I certainly know where your confidence came from