+Harry J Anslinger : predicts tomorrow's weather is way more difficult than predict the next hurricane. Why ? If I tell you that you will experience rain tomorrow, and if the sky stays cloudy but you don't have rain, you will tell me "you were wrong", but perhaps a few tens of kilometers away from you, they got some rain. On the other hand, if I tell you that in august 2017 your region will experience a hurricane, even if the hurricane passes 200km away from you, you will tell me that my prediction was good. Different scales :) Or, with probabilities, predicting the weather tomorrow is like predicting the sum of 10 dices when you know the results of the 9 previous dices. Predicting a hurricane in the next few years is more like predicting the average.
Pretty sure majority of super computers just comprised of racks and racks of nVidia tesla GPUs these days? speaking of crysis, isn't that nearly a decade old already and phone can run it fine these days?
Hi, Hank. Your show is super awesome. I appreciate your hard work. Thanks. Will you please make a show on the difference between scientific hypothesis, theory and law? Thanks. ENZ
Not only have you helped me with my physical science class and my biology class, but you have now helped me with my computer science class. Thank you for helping me survive college, Hank. :)
this is exactly what i thought in any of my electrical engineering classes. They just put super in front of everything and its just means its more badasser or something. Supernode, supermesh, super (freaking) position. Oh and of course you can't forget superconductors.
@krimzonvillain ... a collision is elastic depends on the type or material, arrangement of particles, etc. An elastic collision would bounce while the inelastic would result in a thud or break. I could write a paper on this, but I think I covered a couple of the main points.
Adding super in front of a name does make it sound better, like Saiyan, I mean Super Saiyan sounds epic, then put a three on the other side, and you get Super Saiyan 3, complete epicness
@XDMidgetNinja Actually, no. I just factored in that the turbine will require maintenance while it's running. This includes lubricating, perhaps refinishing, maybe it'll need a new propeller, the gas fumes of those driving out to work on it, etc. And even with maintenance, it can't last forever. So it has a finite time to make up for a 'debt' to which it is continually contributing.
so we are going to devote the most powerful computer in existence to predicting weather??? nobody thought there was any number of better things we could have it doing?
A bit more irony: Yellowstone never even made the top 10 list for power. On top of that, it uses off-the-shelf Intel Xeon processors, standard socket (maybe not form factor) mobos and cases, and off-the-shelf Infiniband switches, all of which any average joe with enough money and patience could just find online used and slot together. Compare this to the K Supercomputer in Japan, which uses mainframe-grade SPARC processors front-to-back, proprietary form factor compute cards, custom liquid cooling, and even a proprietary networking system called the Tofu Interconnect.
@@gregorymalchuk272 oh, of course not, there's a reason basically nobody uses SPARC or POWER and super proprietary interconnects for supercomputing anymore: It's just not worth the cost and lock-in when Intel and especially AMD have blasted by them for ROI and Linux supercomputer tooling has become super mature. Infiniband is now at 200gbit which is fast enough for ~99% of supercomputing applications and can saturate a PCIE 3.0x16 bus, plus Linux built-in drivers for Infiniband have been mature and efficient since over a decade ago, to the point that even the lowest power desktop Linux distros have Infiniband support because it's literally more work to *not* support it. All the biggest and best these days are x86-64-GPU or RISC processors made exclusively for supercomputing (China's Sunway is a good example, conceptually really similar to CELL from IBM), both running Linux.
---Part 2--- How does peek bus rate work? On top of that there is a note about how the system bus has a peek transfer rate up to 4 times that of the base rate. I’m not really sure how that works but I guess that means if each memory operation can sustain a core for an average of 2 or more cycles then cash misses are going to be pretty small. On the other hand, there are so many processors it could have a pretty high miss rate and still be a very powerful computer.
Maybe they can use it to calculate the amount of weather disruption that thousands of giant windmills taking energy out of the wind will cause over a few decades.
+richard reeves Um, wind is from the rotation of the earth. You took a step up from the windmill to the wind, you need to go up one more and realize the wind is created and "dies out" naturally to begin with. I mean if we're going to travel down your path, we would conclude that we would have nicer weather because the wind wouldn't blow as hard and storms wouldn't travel or mix as thoroughly ;)
I just don't follow the train of thought that seems to go something like: producing CO2 is bad, (insert favored energy source here) doesn't produce CO2 therefore it is good and must be used. Any other concerns, like inefficiency, incapability with other systems, the fact that producing the stuff that produces the energy does produce CO2 are all ignored or brushed aside as irrelevant. Wind, solar, nuclear (including thorium), hydro, tidal, geothermal, all have upsides and downsides as do oil, coal, and natural gas.
@krimzonvillain First, that 'pushing back' done by the ground onto the object I mentioned can vary in magnitude. If it is larger than the force of gravity on the object, the object will bounce. Second, this is more important than the force's magnitude. When said object hits the ground a collision occurs. Collisions can be elastic or inelastic. Elastic means the objects hit each other and then bounce back, while inelastic means they collide and stick together. Whether...
Hank, and have you heard about supercomputer, that will be build in my home town Łódź (Lodz, in Poland)? Apparently it will have computing power comparable with Yellowstone and it will have dynamically reconfigurable architecture. If you want to read about it just search "Dynamically REconfigurAble polyMorphic supercomputer".
Well the problem, from what I remember( I have no idea but this is what I have picked up) is not that the whole earth would heat up, but that the melting ice would destroy or change current patterns in the oceans, currents that normally bring warm water and weather up from the equator. So what happens is areas North of the Equator would get much colder then they are now. But its something to look into, I might be completely wrong though.
On the whole, Java is actually relatively easy to program, especially when compared to C or C++. The primary reason it is so slow is that Java programs run on what is called a "virtual machine," which is sort of like a computer java simulates on your computer. Java was designed that way because it makes it very easy to run any Java program on any operating system. Simplified explanation, but I'm not an expert. Correct me if I've made a mistake.
Let me suggest a topic. Compare the carbon footprint created during the manufacture of one single turbine versus the benefits received for the environment based on its use. I would like to know if, after getting the materials together, assembling the turbine, erecting it as well as all the costs (carbon costs) associated with those processes is outweighed by the useful life of the turbine.
Hi. Love your show. I also like knowing what's happening RIGHT NOW. Not what we WILL know with something that WILL be built in the future, etc etc, which is cool, but mix it up with WHAT is currently happening, what we CURRENTLY know, etc, I'm sure awesome stuff exists even today ... I hope.
I will dearly miss your goatee when it's no longer in Sci Show. But I'll always have these first videos to look back to. (you should regrow that goatee)
@BooksAreMyBlood Newton's 3rd law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As the ball hits the ground, the ground is 'pushing back' forcing the ball to come back up.
Minecraft server can only use two threads usually, so, you're actually correct, as the processors in the supercomputer are probably slower than the ones in your computer, their power comes from putting them together.
What is Yellowstone’s average cache miss rate? It has an aggregate memory size of 144.6 terabytes and this is DDR3 memory running 1.563 GHz. Since DDR reads on both high and low, it will be effectively feeding data at 3.125 GHz which is faster than the 2.6 GHz processor can consume. So it seems like fetching an entire page of cash would actually slow you down. But then one realizes that each unit has 8 cores so it could theoretically consume data at 20.8 GHz before running into that problem.
I was learning about Yellowstone and the eradication and reintroduction of wolves in Biology, and then come home to a video about Yellowstone Supercomputer. Super.
In point of fact, Hank Green is the brother of John Green. Also, both of them have their own CrashCourse. Hank does Biology and Ecology and John does World History and Literature.
I know this is a strange comment but I like your voice, im a science nerd and proud, im studying molecular science at uni aaaaand I like your voice haha. Would be great if you could do more space posts! Keep up the good work.x
@socccerPlayerz The maths behind it makes sense and they study dynamical systems... what is the perfect example of a dynamic system? Indeed, the weather.
@Thiren111 Farther is for distance. As in "If I drink superwater, I can run 50 miles farther." Further is more like deeper metaphorically, nonphysically like "Furthermore" or "If you investigate further, I will have no choice but to wipe your memory".
I think an interesting show could be about the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams currently in the planning stage at Michigan State University. The Department of Energy promised money for it and now they're thinking about taking it back, so any sort of awareness might help. (It may be that this is only interesting to me because I'm an MSU student, though.)
It's a few miles away, but judging from the past history of the yellowstone volcano the chances of it's effects reaching the area the computer is stored in are high. Yes, it's amazing how far we've come in the last 1000 years. If people from the dark ages seen us now we would be like gods to them. I cannot only imagine what It will be like in the next 100 years.
@nelhael3012 it won't predict the future, it will only calculate the probabilities for different futures, and will tell you wich one is most likely to happen. There is always room for caos
Not really, it can be interpreted like that though. The butterfly effect is just a way of explaining "Chaos Theory". It states that a butterfly flapping it's wing in one hemisphere may cause a tornado/weather phenomenon in another hemisphere. The idea being small actions leading to unpredictable/large phenomenon.
1:33 that supercomputer might use a language to generate data that will generate data.. I don't believe that they program that straight to the compiler without language heuristics or AI for data analysis. 2:15 for simulation without catalysed flaws, they might make ends meet. Have they found all the "ends"?
(sort of on-topic) - Wind power is currently really controversial here in Australia, no one wants to live near wind farms because they say it makes them sick, but there's been no medical research done on the effects of wind farms. So people want to build them, but no one wants to live near them. And we don't even have any nuclear energy because it has no public support, so we have an almost exclusively coal-driven energy sector.
Chaos Theory states that certain systems are so sensitive to small changes in conditions that long-term prediction is almost impossible. But with a big and powerful enough computer, we can actually factor in these tiny changes and predict - not for definite, but with much more accurate probabilities - what will happen in the relatively distant future.
@badd2049 Why roaches are on their back- Its quite simple, their legs curl up. Imagine their cross-section when dead, their back is much flatter than their curled up legs, almost like a triangle where the most stable base is their back.
I've always kinda curious have we will measure computing power once we pass a 1000 Yotta Bytes, going past a Yotta- in metrics seem kind of strange since we don't work in numbers that big usually without going into 10 to the X power. But just using pre-fixes seems to be linguistically faster. Someone should come up with new metric names.
its good that people are designing faster and more powerful computers as it forces manufacturers to adapt and find innovative solutions to problems such as heat dissipation and energy stability. i also like that this supercomputer will be using renewable energy sources and who knows it might eventually be switched to all renewable energy sources then not only will it be environmentally friendly it will also be resistant to power failures and similar problems
I do believe that you misused the word "farther". You used that word when talking about a metaphorical distance, and therefor used it in the wrong place. I only say this because I know you care about what you say. You're absolutely amazing. -Alex
@reddogg1990 Most of the modern supercomputers use clustered GPUs, unfortunately even with that power network lag usually causes slow online games and these computers use Linux.
@Octovain Wind based power is renewable (I'm pretty sure you know that) but since they don't mention any others... If they are using others, brag about those too. saying 50% renewable is hell more impressive than 10% wind power. Should surely aim for higher than 10% either way.
@itsalmostanorange Well the computer basically is just a bunch of computers hooked up and I can tell that you have no idea how big this computer will be.
@DontBotherTETRiS Mine just wants to think about some complementary set of primary-coloured stones to match the Redstone already inherent in Minecraft... I mean, people already make redstone supercomputers in Minecraft. I thought this might be about Minecraft (I didn't really think that).
Supersonic is actually quite literally correct and descriptive, at least when used of speeds. A supersonic speed is a speed above the speed of sound. Similarly, superluminal speed is speed above the speed of light. The same more or less applies to things like superstructure and supernatural. Whether or not any of these things are more awesome is really a matter of perspective.
Hey! dont know if any one cares but, the Pentium 4 running at 3 ghz in 2007 did 12 gigaflops (12 billion flops) the new super comp would do 1.6 million gigaflops i know it was a single core CPU but that was about the last time we could measure flops properly
So.. what about things like home insurance? Say if there is a prediction that such and such event happens at a certain location far off in the future. Insurances costs and similar things would be drastically affected provided that long-term predictions become publicly available. The far-reaching concerns of such a system could change the way day to day interactions occur. Just some food for thought.
The title made me think this was gonna be a video about the computer in Yogi Bear's secret lab where he works to protect humanity with his superhero alter-ego...
Err.... CPU: ~17 Gflops(i7-2600k @ ~4.5Ghz) (Actual stress test using some code I wrote) GPU(Yeah, I know, I know): ~2400 Gflops(560Ti OC'd in SLI) (Estimated from Wikipedia)
Wow, imagine... owning a super computer... you could do so many things! Predict hurricanes, find where to place wind turbines, find an end to pi... and watch scishow with no buffering!
Hank! Can you get us some more info on Stanford's wireless electric highway project? :D It won't let me put a link here, but I saw the story on c|net...I'm sure you can find it. :)
Hank, Im trying to compete to try and make the best alternative energy design and I was hoping you could help me? Im not trying to beg but since you are the smartest person i think ive ever watched. could you help me with my design?
You always teach us such interesting things Hank, I love this channel:) only, I have to say, 10%, wow that's huge ... Hahaha, better than nothing I guess :)!
So...does it predict weather patterns on the sun, too, because solar activity has more effect on Earth's weather than everything else combined, and any model running months or years of predictions will need to factor that in. Normally, I'd assume the scientists thought of this, but given how many climatologists ignore solar activity when discussing climate change, I'm not too optimistic.
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When I needed a break from grad school work, I came to watch this video. I love when learning doesn't seem like a chore.
"With all our technology that can't accurately predict tomorrow's weather, we're buying a computer we think can predict the next decade's weather."
+Harry J Anslinger : predicts tomorrow's weather is way more difficult than predict the next hurricane. Why ? If I tell you that you will experience rain tomorrow, and if the sky stays cloudy but you don't have rain, you will tell me "you were wrong", but perhaps a few tens of kilometers away from you, they got some rain. On the other hand, if I tell you that in august 2017 your region will experience a hurricane, even if the hurricane passes 200km away from you, you will tell me that my prediction was good.
Different scales :) Or, with probabilities, predicting the weather tomorrow is like predicting the sum of 10 dices when you know the results of the 9 previous dices. Predicting a hurricane in the next few years is more like predicting the average.
my weather app on my phone has always been pretty accurate so I think you saying we can't accurately predict tomorrows weather is inaccurate lol
The only prediction is yesterday weather ...that is pretty accurate
But can it run Crysis?
+UrbanArtifact Only if you turn off the grass effects.
Obviously not, it doesn't have a dedicated GPU.
Actually, reading the specs and then the recommended specs for crysis, it doesn't meet them 😄
Pretty sure majority of super computers just comprised of racks and racks of nVidia tesla GPUs these days?
speaking of crysis, isn't that nearly a decade old already and phone can run it fine these days?
My Gateway can't run it :/
Hi, Hank. Your show is super awesome. I appreciate your hard work. Thanks. Will you please make a show on the difference between scientific hypothesis, theory and law?
Thanks.
ENZ
Not only have you helped me with my physical science class and my biology class, but you have now helped me with my computer science class.
Thank you for helping me survive college, Hank. :)
Did anyone else think of Deep Thought from the Hitchhiker's Guide?
What is six times [data corrupted]?
this is exactly what i thought in any of my electrical engineering classes. They just put super in front of everything and its just means its more badasser or something. Supernode, supermesh, super (freaking) position. Oh and of course you can't forget superconductors.
Hank has super facial hair
@krimzonvillain ... a collision is elastic depends on the type or material, arrangement of particles, etc. An elastic collision would bounce while the inelastic would result in a thud or break. I could write a paper on this, but I think I covered a couple of the main points.
Adding super in front of a name does make it sound better, like Saiyan, I mean Super Saiyan sounds epic, then put a three on the other side, and you get Super Saiyan 3, complete epicness
2:35 I applaud you for knowing the difference between "further" and "farther". Almost everybody uses the wrong one in that context.
Still couldn't pay dayz at 30fps.
@XDMidgetNinja Actually, no. I just factored in that the turbine will require maintenance while it's running. This includes lubricating, perhaps refinishing, maybe it'll need a new propeller, the gas fumes of those driving out to work on it, etc. And even with maintenance, it can't last forever. So it has a finite time to make up for a 'debt' to which it is continually contributing.
so we are going to devote the most powerful computer in existence to predicting weather??? nobody thought there was any number of better things we could have it doing?
anything more important than climate change?
Patrick Mitchell Yellowstone is nowhere near the most powerful computer in existence at the time of it being built, where did you get that impression?
Patrick Mitchell He said it's the most powerful computer ever to have been *dedicated to climate*, not the most powerful computer ever. Listen.
Question: I've heard that the actual making of wind turbines requires more energy than they actually produce. Is this a myth?
Its ironic they would put it in a state where most of the population doesn't "believe" in climate change but thinks Noah's arc is scientific fact.
A bit more irony: Yellowstone never even made the top 10 list for power. On top of that, it uses off-the-shelf Intel Xeon processors, standard socket (maybe not form factor) mobos and cases, and off-the-shelf Infiniband switches, all of which any average joe with enough money and patience could just find online used and slot together.
Compare this to the K Supercomputer in Japan, which uses mainframe-grade SPARC processors front-to-back, proprietary form factor compute cards, custom liquid cooling, and even a proprietary networking system called the Tofu Interconnect.
Wait, there's population in Wyoming?
@@gregorymalchuk272 oh, of course not, there's a reason basically nobody uses SPARC or POWER and super proprietary interconnects for supercomputing anymore: It's just not worth the cost and lock-in when Intel and especially AMD have blasted by them for ROI and Linux supercomputer tooling has become super mature. Infiniband is now at 200gbit which is fast enough for ~99% of supercomputing applications and can saturate a PCIE 3.0x16 bus, plus Linux built-in drivers for Infiniband have been mature and efficient since over a decade ago, to the point that even the lowest power desktop Linux distros have Infiniband support because it's literally more work to *not* support it. All the biggest and best these days are x86-64-GPU or RISC processors made exclusively for supercomputing (China's Sunway is a good example, conceptually really similar to CELL from IBM), both running Linux.
---Part 2---
How does peek bus rate work?
On top of that there is a note about how the system bus has a peek transfer rate up to 4 times that of the base rate. I’m not really sure how that works but I guess that means if each memory operation can sustain a core for an average of 2 or more cycles then cash misses are going to be pretty small. On the other hand, there are so many processors it could have a pretty high miss rate and still be a very powerful computer.
Maybe they can use it to calculate the amount of weather disruption that thousands of giant windmills taking energy out of the wind will cause over a few decades.
+richard reeves Um, wind is from the rotation of the earth. You took a step up from the windmill to the wind, you need to go up one more and realize the wind is created and "dies out" naturally to begin with. I mean if we're going to travel down your path, we would conclude that we would have nicer weather because the wind wouldn't blow as hard and storms wouldn't travel or mix as thoroughly ;)
Jess Vagnar would also result in less rainfall since the higher wind causes water to evaporate faster and probably other effects.
You don't seem to care for renewable energy lol
I just don't follow the train of thought that seems to go something like: producing CO2 is bad, (insert favored energy source here) doesn't produce CO2 therefore it is good and must be used. Any other concerns, like inefficiency, incapability with other systems, the fact that producing the stuff that produces the energy does produce CO2 are all ignored or brushed aside as irrelevant. Wind, solar, nuclear (including thorium), hydro, tidal, geothermal, all have upsides and downsides as do oil, coal, and natural gas.
+richard reeves LFTR is for the future IMHO the world will see it soon
First ever video to get a custom thumbnail. Being the part of history right there lol.
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@krimzonvillain First, that 'pushing back' done by the ground onto the object I mentioned can vary in magnitude. If it is larger than the force of gravity on the object, the object will bounce. Second, this is more important than the force's magnitude. When said object hits the ground a collision occurs. Collisions can be elastic or inelastic. Elastic means the objects hit each other and then bounce back, while inelastic means they collide and stick together. Whether...
Anyone from Timeworks????
Hank, and have you heard about supercomputer, that will be build in my home town Łódź (Lodz, in Poland)? Apparently it will have computing power comparable with Yellowstone and it will have dynamically reconfigurable architecture. If you want to read about it just search "Dynamically REconfigurAble polyMorphic supercomputer".
Well the problem, from what I remember( I have no idea but this is what I have picked up) is not that the whole earth would heat up, but that the melting ice would destroy or change current patterns in the oceans, currents that normally bring warm water and weather up from the equator. So what happens is areas North of the Equator would get much colder then they are now. But its something to look into, I might be completely wrong though.
On the whole, Java is actually relatively easy to program, especially when compared to C or C++.
The primary reason it is so slow is that Java programs run on what is called a "virtual machine," which is sort of like a computer java simulates on your computer. Java was designed that way because it makes it very easy to run any Java program on any operating system.
Simplified explanation, but I'm not an expert. Correct me if I've made a mistake.
i love the mocking laugh and "thats just super" at the 10% wind power lol
It would be great if you could explain why the universe might be saddle-shaped, and what the thoughts behind that hypothesis is.
Let me suggest a topic. Compare the carbon footprint created during the manufacture of one single turbine versus the benefits received for the environment based on its use. I would like to know if, after getting the materials together, assembling the turbine, erecting it as well as all the costs (carbon costs) associated with those processes is outweighed by the useful life of the turbine.
Hi.
Love your show.
I also like knowing what's happening RIGHT NOW.
Not what we WILL know with something that WILL be built in the future, etc etc, which is cool, but mix it up with WHAT is currently happening, what we CURRENTLY know, etc, I'm sure awesome stuff exists even today ... I hope.
I will dearly miss your goatee when it's no longer in Sci Show. But I'll always have these first videos to look back to. (you should regrow that goatee)
@BooksAreMyBlood Newton's 3rd law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As the ball hits the ground, the ground is 'pushing back' forcing the ball to come back up.
Minecraft server can only use two threads usually, so, you're actually correct, as the processors in the supercomputer are probably slower than the ones in your computer, their power comes from putting them together.
What is Yellowstone’s average cache miss rate?
It has an aggregate memory size of 144.6 terabytes and this is DDR3 memory running 1.563 GHz. Since DDR reads on both high and low, it will be effectively feeding data at 3.125 GHz which is faster than the 2.6 GHz processor can consume. So it seems like fetching an entire page of cash would actually slow you down. But then one realizes that each unit has 8 cores so it could theoretically consume data at 20.8 GHz before running into that problem.
I was learning about Yellowstone and the eradication and reintroduction of wolves in Biology, and then come home to a video about Yellowstone Supercomputer.
Super.
Man, Yellowstone has all the best stuff. A super computer AND a super volcano.
It's been 5 years, update please.
In point of fact, Hank Green is the brother of John Green. Also, both of them have their own CrashCourse. Hank does Biology and Ecology and John does World History and Literature.
You know what's even more impressive than the Yellowstone Supercomputer? Redstone Supercomputers. Those things are frickin' nuts.
I am glad I bought a lifetime warranty on my brain because I am mind blown. And as a physicist I can tell you it takes A LOT to blow my mind.
Didn't even read the title, just clicked on a picture of Hank Green with .. a beard?!
Floating-point, i.e. numbers that have decimals. Like, a 64-bit processor can (usually) store 64-bit floating point numbers.
What about predicting when the restless caldera that it's sitting on top of will erupt?
I know this is a strange comment but I like your voice, im a science nerd and proud, im studying molecular science at uni aaaaand I like your voice haha. Would be great if you could do more space posts! Keep up the good work.x
@socccerPlayerz The maths behind it makes sense and they study dynamical systems... what is the perfect example of a dynamic system? Indeed, the weather.
what about putting screwdriver at the end like sonic screwdriver or laser screwdriver? sounds good to me
@Rosalila Because you missed the 3 or 4 vlogbrothers videos where they mentioned this and Crash Course?
@Thiren111 Farther is for distance. As in "If I drink superwater, I can run 50 miles farther." Further is more like deeper metaphorically, nonphysically like "Furthermore" or "If you investigate further, I will have no choice but to wipe your memory".
I think an interesting show could be about the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams currently in the planning stage at Michigan State University. The Department of Energy promised money for it and now they're thinking about taking it back, so any sort of awareness might help. (It may be that this is only interesting to me because I'm an MSU student, though.)
It's a few miles away, but judging from the past history of the yellowstone volcano the chances of it's effects reaching the area the computer is stored in are high.
Yes, it's amazing how far we've come in the last 1000 years. If people from the dark ages seen us now we would be like gods to them. I cannot only imagine what It will be like in the next 100 years.
@nelhael3012 it won't predict the future, it will only calculate the probabilities for different futures, and will tell you wich one is most likely to happen. There is always room for caos
@DerpZombie I think Minecraft actually has performance issues at around 4-5k FPS
@drako1816 pfft, Glados is in an abondoned salt mine in Michigan(AKA Aperture).
Hank, will the wind generators have protections in them so they don't kill birds? Great video as always, thanks.
Not really, it can be interpreted like that though. The butterfly effect is just a way of explaining "Chaos Theory". It states that a butterfly flapping it's wing in one hemisphere may cause a tornado/weather phenomenon in another hemisphere. The idea being small actions leading to unpredictable/large phenomenon.
1:33 that supercomputer might use a language to generate data that will generate data.. I don't believe that they program that straight to the compiler without language heuristics or AI for data analysis.
2:15 for simulation without catalysed flaws, they might make ends meet. Have they found all the "ends"?
" i don't even know how many things that is. i can't.... per second?" hank you are adorable :)
How about prepending "hyper"? We have hypermarts in addition to supermarts in Singapore...
(sort of on-topic) - Wind power is currently really controversial here in Australia, no one wants to live near wind farms because they say it makes them sick, but there's been no medical research done on the effects of wind farms. So people want to build them, but no one wants to live near them. And we don't even have any nuclear energy because it has no public support, so we have an almost exclusively coal-driven energy sector.
Chaos Theory states that certain systems are so sensitive to small changes in conditions that long-term prediction is almost impossible.
But with a big and powerful enough computer, we can actually factor in these tiny changes and predict - not for definite, but with much more accurate probabilities - what will happen in the relatively distant future.
@badd2049 Why roaches are on their back- Its quite simple, their legs curl up. Imagine their cross-section when dead, their back is much flatter than their curled up legs, almost like a triangle where the most stable base is their back.
I've always kinda curious have we will measure computing power once we pass a 1000 Yotta Bytes, going past a Yotta- in metrics seem kind of strange since we don't work in numbers that big usually without going into 10 to the X power. But just using pre-fixes seems to be linguistically faster. Someone should come up with new metric names.
its good that people are designing faster and more powerful computers as it forces manufacturers to adapt and find innovative solutions to problems such as heat dissipation and energy stability. i also like that this supercomputer will be using renewable energy sources and who knows it might eventually be switched to all renewable energy sources then not only will it be environmentally friendly it will also be resistant to power failures and similar problems
I do believe that you misused the word "farther". You used that word when talking about a metaphorical distance, and therefor used it in the wrong place.
I only say this because I know you care about what you say.
You're absolutely amazing.
-Alex
@reddogg1990 Most of the modern supercomputers use clustered GPUs, unfortunately even with that power network lag usually causes slow online games and these computers use Linux.
@Octovain Wind based power is renewable (I'm pretty sure you know that) but since they don't mention any others... If they are using others, brag about those too. saying 50% renewable is hell more impressive than 10% wind power.
Should surely aim for higher than 10% either way.
@itsalmostanorange The bandwidth you'd need for that would probably be phenomenal.
For those wondering, that puts the Yellowstone at doing 80 to 160 thousand times as many operations as your average computer.
Thanks a lot for the information, hank! I'm doing my school project on this, so this will really help!
@itsalmostanorange Well the computer basically is just a bunch of computers hooked up and I can tell that you have no idea how big this computer will be.
Doesn't Chaos theory prevent any long term predictions of complex systems such as weather?
@DontBotherTETRiS Mine just wants to think about some complementary set of primary-coloured stones to match the Redstone already inherent in Minecraft... I mean, people already make redstone supercomputers in Minecraft. I thought this might be about Minecraft (I didn't really think that).
40 years from now, our laptops and hand held devices will likely be as powerful as that. Thats an intriguing thought.
Supersonic is actually quite literally correct and descriptive, at least when used of speeds. A supersonic speed is a speed above the speed of sound. Similarly, superluminal speed is speed above the speed of light.
The same more or less applies to things like superstructure and supernatural. Whether or not any of these things are more awesome is really a matter of perspective.
@TheZipo29 Yeah, but you'd probably need way too many redstone repeaters and it'd just get confusing.
Hank, what about migratory birds vs wind turbines? I know a bit about the conflict there, would you talk about that sometime?
Hey! dont know if any one cares but,
the Pentium 4 running at 3 ghz in 2007 did 12 gigaflops (12 billion flops)
the new super comp would do 1.6 million gigaflops
i know it was a single core CPU but that was about the last time we could measure flops properly
I LOVE this channel!
what about some things on anatomy.... like how the females chest (actual ribcage ) changes size to accommodate for the growing baby. or blood typing
So.. what about things like home insurance? Say if there is a prediction that such and such event happens at a certain location far off in the future. Insurances costs and similar things would be drastically affected provided that long-term predictions become publicly available. The far-reaching concerns of such a system could change the way day to day interactions occur. Just some food for thought.
The title made me think this was gonna be a video about the computer in Yogi Bear's secret lab where he works to protect humanity with his superhero alter-ego...
Things look a lot cooler when you have that hair 🤣
Err....
CPU: ~17 Gflops(i7-2600k @ ~4.5Ghz) (Actual stress test using some code I wrote)
GPU(Yeah, I know, I know): ~2400 Gflops(560Ti OC'd in SLI) (Estimated from Wikipedia)
The Yellowstone supercomputer is as powerful as 815 PS4s running at once
They run on different architecture so... Not very comparable one is for weather prediction and the other for gaming.
Michael .Hanson imagine what kind of games you could run on something that powerful
Javon Younger Maybe even Crysis on full specs!
Javon Younger not much because no graphics card
Hugh Johnson lol yeah
predicting the weather within 5 degrees celsius for the following day would be a good start
@kaylaann93 In addition to that law, why do some things bounce and other things break or simply thud?
That is one heck of an awesome computer.
hank, you're the greatest
Wow, imagine... owning a super computer... you could do so many things! Predict hurricanes, find where to place wind turbines, find an end to pi... and watch scishow with no buffering!
Hank! Can you get us some more info on Stanford's wireless electric highway project? :D It won't let me put a link here, but I saw the story on c|net...I'm sure you can find it. :)
@keyfloater96
How do you know it hasn't already and you aren't in it?
Hank, Im trying to compete to try and make the best alternative energy design and I was hoping you could help me? Im not trying to beg but since you are the smartest person i think ive ever watched. could you help me with my design?
That's truly magical, I didn't even need to thumbs up or down.
Supercomputer named after a Supervolcano!
This sounds like the book "Richter 10" is coming to life. :O
first video to ever get a custom thumbnail
It sure is
@Charmed2themaxs Deep Thought!! :D Tho I don't think we've quite gotten there yet...
You always teach us such interesting things Hank, I love this channel:)
only, I have to say, 10%, wow that's huge ...
Hahaha, better than nothing I guess :)!
So...does it predict weather patterns on the sun, too, because solar activity has more effect on Earth's weather than everything else combined, and any model running months or years of predictions will need to factor that in. Normally, I'd assume the scientists thought of this, but given how many climatologists ignore solar activity when discussing climate change, I'm not too optimistic.
what is the purpose of neutrally charged neutrons?
sooo.....does it only have one keyborad and mouse? and how much ram are we talkin?