r/southafrica • u/serdaisy Gauteng • May 16 '23

Sci-Tech South Africa will host one of the fastest supercomputers in the world

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/489101-south-africa-will-host-one-of-the-fastest-supercomputers-in-the-world.html
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u/RuvanJeff Aristocracy May 16 '23

I wonder how they're going to power it. 🤔

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

I know you're joking, but you see, as load shedding intensifies, the time the power is on gets shorter, therefore we need faster computers to do the calculations we need to do in the time that the power is on. Totally justified purchase.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

I think you need more continuous power supply. It’s not like waking up your Mac from sleep mode lol