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No, the Soviets couldn't get any of their engineering computation done either [1]. Later they were unable to do things like manufacture propellers for their su
by frozenport 3y ago
No, the Soviets couldn't get any of their engineering computation done either [1].
Later they were unable to do things like manufacture propellers for their submarines [2]. Not to mention the Gulf War.
[1] `The state of scientific computing was particularly backwards, with the CIA commenting that "to the Soviets, the acquisition of a single Western supercomputer would give a 10%–100% increase in total scientific computing power."[54]`
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%E2%80%93Kongsberg_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%E2%80%93Kongsberg_scan...
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoSure, but that's not really the case today. You don't need to buy export controlled supercomputers now, when China can build one with commercial Nvidia GPUs or AMD CPUs.
- credit_guy 3y agoBut China can't buy those Nvidia and AMD GPUs. https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-may-be-forced-shift-out-some-countries-after-new-us-export-curbs-2023-10-17/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-may-be-forced-shif...
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThey can buy RTX 4090s.
- LargeTomato 3y agoI'm not sure why you're continuing down your argumentative line. Do you really not see the forest through the trees? You have even rebuttalled against the other person, you just keep saying "nuh uh what about X"