{"id":1678771,"date":"2022-10-07T18:53:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678771"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:53:40","slug":"whats-a-supercomputer-how-the-u-s-will-decide-who-to-punish-with-china-tech-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-a-supercomputer-how-the-u-s-will-decide-who-to-punish-with-china-tech-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a supercomputer? How the U.S. will decide who to punish with China tech curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhats-a-supercomputer-how-the-u-s-will-decide-who-to-punish-with-china-tech-curbs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Jane Lanhee Lee and Stephen Nellis<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Deciding who gets hurt by sweeping new U.S. curbs on selling technology to China will come down in part to what constitutes a \u201csupercomputer,\u201d experts told Reuters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Around the world, the semiconductor industry on Friday began to wrestle with wide-ranging U.S. restrictions on selling chips and chip manufacturing equipment to China.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of chip equipment makers drooped, but industry experts said a new U.S. definition of a supercomputer could be pivotal to the new rules\u2019 impact on China.<\/p>\n<p>Supercomputers can be used in developing nuclear weapons and other military technologies, and experts say how to define them has long bedeviled regulators trying to pin down an ever-advancing technological target.<\/p>\n<p>The new American rules define supercomputers broadly in terms of computing power in a defined space: a machine with 100 petaflops \u2013 the ability to carry out 100 trillion operations per second \u2013 in 41,600 cubic feet, with some other caveats.<\/p>\n<p>Senior government officials said in a media briefing that their intention was to target only China\u2019s most advanced systems that could represent a national security threat to the United States rather than commercial activity.<\/p>\n<p>But experts wondered whether Chinese tech giants\u2019 densely packed data centers owned by the likes of Alibaba Group Holding or TikTok-owner ByteDance might soon reach supercomputer status based on the new definition, even if that is not what U.S. regulators intended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData center build-outs like Alibaba or ByteDance would have the potential to reach petaflop build-outs,\u201d said CCS Insight chip analyst Wayne Lam said.<\/p>\n<p>The new definition is unlikely to change as industry technology improves. Current-day Chinese supercomputers may one day become the corporate standard, but they will still face the limits imposed Friday to stop any chip made with U.S. equipment or technology from going into China. Companies \u201cmay very well run into supercomputing limitations within the next couple of years,\u201d Lam said.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Dongarra, a professor of computer science who helps lead a group called TOP500 that ranks the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers, said he disagreed with the static definition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is that the definition of a supercomputer will change over time,\u201d he said by email.<\/p>\n<p>Major Chinese companies with big data centers such as Baidu, Alibaba and ByteDance did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Tencent declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The definition of computing power per cubic foot also may offer room for creative workarounds. For instance, said one expert, use fiber optic cables to tie together immense computing power over a larger space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could spread their supercomputers out over a larger space,\u201d said one chip and data center expert who requested anonymity due to the politically charged nature of the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average supercomputer architect would say, \u2018That\u2019s not how things are done!\u2019 But not being able to do it another way breeds a lot of creativity, and willingness to do things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco and Jane Lanhee Lee in Oakland, California; editing by Peter Henderson, Ken Li and Richard Chang)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/whats-a-supercomputer-how\/attachment\/illustration-picture-of-semiconductor-chips-on-a-circuit-board-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI96125-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI96125-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jane Lanhee Lee and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) \u2013 Deciding who gets hurt by sweeping new U.S. curbs on selling technology to China will come down in part to what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/whats-a-supercomputer-how\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-a-supercomputer-how","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}