No Foolin
Loved the fake article in the April issue (Crystal ball for catastrophes). Despite the ludicrousness of a claim to predicting disasters, the article almost fooled meuntil the line 600 petaflops came up. I know that researchers just recently developed a one-teraflop supercomputer. So it would take 600,000 supercomputers to give the degree of processing power that this article says is just working on flash-flood equations.
Since each one of these supercomputers would be outrageously expensive and take up a large room, the idea of 600,000 of these supercomputers merely existing, let alone being used by the same company in six datacenters, is absolutely absurd.
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