The fabled “Year of the Linux Desktop” has never materialized, and it likely never will. Does that mean Linux on a desktop PC is irrelevant? Not at all! Desktop Linux is still awesome.
2021/04/06 20:57 Tianhe-2. Tianhe-2. (Wikimedia Commons photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The West has been very concerned about its technologies being used by Beijing s security apparatus for the surveillance of Chinese citizens. While the Trump administration took positive steps to curtail the export of Western technologies to China for fear of enhancing its competitiveness, we still need to assess China’s technological capabilities lest we lose sight of the bigger picture.
China’s supercomputers Among the world s 500 fastest supercomputers in 2020, 227 were Chinese. China s Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 are ranked the world s third and fourth-fastest, respectively. This article is meant to argue that this superficial phenomenon could be misleading.