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The Skeptics Guide #882 - Jun 4 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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XFLOP Supercomputers - What's So Special?

Frontier is number one on the green 500 list, which scores commercial supercomputers for energy use and efficiency. It uses four 350 horsepower pumps moving 6,000 gallons of water through the cabinets every minute, every 60 every 60 seconds. Forecasting viruses that leap species, zoonotic right, to avoid the next pandemic could be helped by these computers. Instead of waiting a half hour or more for the number crunching that you do on your project, you can get the answer in seconds,. Bob: This is starting to sound really like dystopian to me, Bob.

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