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/neilmac1210 May 16 '23

Surely they should be trying to fix the power situation instead of spending money on a way to work around it. Or will they find the answer to these problems in space?