The new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- “Sierra” was just crowned the second-most powerful supercomputer on the planet. And while most of its peers use their power for climate simulations, astrophysics, and other civilian work, Sierra is purpose-built for an entirely different mission: nuclear weapons. We took a tour of this massive system, and found out why the US builds supercomputers to support its nuclear arsenal.
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Is this supercomputer making it harder to get rid of nuclear stockpiles?
Idk but I’d say kinda
Yes. Also, it is weaker than China's TIANHE.
Also they won't let me play Fortnite on it.
Yes.
No, it's making it easier for us to turn ourselves into Thanos
That's the wrong question in my opinion. The question should be; Can we ever get rid of nuclear weapons? The answer is, sadly, no. It's a pandora's box that has been opened and cannot be closed on the world. Just like humans discovering fire or the firearm once something is discovered it cannot be "un-discovered". Someone, somewhere will have a nuclear bomb. It's best to be prepared for it by having your own.
The government really just tryna play Minecraft in 4K with Ray tracing at 140fps
nah, they can only run 640x480 fast settings, with mods.
@@nyl0n733 with optifine
The Dragon also with all the mods possible
@@Altervainum more like pathtracing
You'll only get around 4fps running minesweeper at low settings
Mumbo Jumbo: "The redstone's pretty simple"
The redstone:
IKR
lmao
Lol ikr
under rated comment
How many Minecraft engineers are actual engineers/ physicists
"my gaming setup isn't all that great.."
his gaming setup :
Supercomputer is not a computer it is a bunch of system 😂
@@398yorunisaku-o7p classified systems
@@tyuytttyler6819 same thing
10k fps on every game
@@theyepyo9761
10m fps*
Place 6million minecraft tnt.we"ll see what happens
This is strangely the best comment, I actually GENUINELY wonder if it would be abled to handle it, bc I somewhen heard, that minecraft tnt creates an exponential rising insane amount of cpu power requirements that basically no computer could be abled to handle for an infinite amount of time.
10 FPS or so
@@Triangleguy713 2 trillion instead
It could handle 6mil. But let's try 1 billion :-)
Can it run cyberpunk 2077?
Spoilers
Only at 39 fps max
It's unfortunate that this technological marvel is used for military purposes and not medical... or at least the ultimate recipe for the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Hard on the outside, soft inside.
Hi Jesus
I agree with you J
Actually the world's fastest computer which is in my town oak ridge Tennessee is used for medical purposes and other stuff.
Arturo Fuentes weird flex but ok
Can it run more than 2 tabs on Chrome?
Yeah, I thought so.
My shitty ass laptop can do that
@Dlox obviously
Tropical Tundra woooosh
@CoolGamer101588 Roblox And More! You’re all kinds of a cyst
Yes
They are 100% mining bitcoin with that thing 😂
no theyre not.
@@amp4105 you ever heard of sarcasm ?
That means they can make 1 bitcoin per minute probably
@@amp4105you ever heard of sarcasm ?
@@amp4105 ever sarcasm sarcasm heard sarcasms you ? Of O ?
Wait why are the supercomputers all named after Apple Macs Operating Systems lol
GMDGavin mac is named after them*
@@fluffy7010 oh really? the more you know
Lol I noticed that too
Going off of F L U F F Y's reply, the supercomputers are named after mountains/landmarks, and MacOS versions, after the supercomputers
GMDGavin ah the irony
So this is why RAM is so goddam expensive...
Its actually not bad right now, 70-100 dollars for 16GB's of ddr4-3200 ram.
And for 32 gigs (2x16) you're looking at 150 dollars.
I remember paying 90$ for a 500mb usb stick
The only computer capable of running games with RTX on.
Iolenm or the first crysis on max graphics
@@CaptainNiiko It doesn't have a graphics card it cannot do that well.
@Willy McFly It doesn't have a graphics card it cannot do that well.
@@brendansapp each computer rack is equipped with a Nvidia Tesla V100 16 GB
@@BraidenRobson oops sorry I didn't research that frikin 125 PETA flops holy cow
I love the architecture of the server towers. It’s futuristic, yet simple.
It’s a really weird energy in this video like everyone knows we don’t need nukes but they’re still gonna make them
It makes me think that it's only a matter of time before some crazy whackjob gets his hands on nukes or is able to create one and commit a mass terrorist attack to try to terminate humanity
Sierra is old and outdated. They should name it Mojave.
borny hitch apple software joke noice
Morphical think it was a fallout reference
Or atleast high sierra untill they have drivers for nvidia graphicscards
EGGactly
Im the biggest fallout fan and i live in the mojave.
I can't stop thinking about how much they spend on that blue and black design
I wonder
same
Wait until they hear about RGB lighting.
Probably about 500 for the first one then 50 for each subsequent. Its most likely fiberglass, they just pop it out of a mold. Paint it, and the design isnt all that complicated.
@@Toni-lm2ig no im pretty sure thats laurel.
"We need to make sure we can destroy almost* all life on Earth multiple times. Then, if we have time, we can work on curing cancer and anticipating disasters". Glad they have their priorities straight..
Now think about this,what if the ai of the supercomputer takes control of the nuclear bombs and kill all human life on earth?😂
I understand your concern, but to have nothing we would have to assume that the world is full of humans who respect life and honor homeland rights, which is not the case. Unfortunately, the world has shown over and over that there are countries where their philosophy is to raid, conquer and destroy. Our stockpile serves as a deterrent more than anything to Russia and China, where dictators and other rulers have constant tension with the US. It's not bad to have a gun in your house if all the criminals have them too. Please note that I am not equating other countries with criminals, but rather making a separate analogy. The people of China and Russia are wonderful.
@Benni B No, AI can't do that. Use your brain and do your research.
@Jake the Astronaut that was a pun.it doesn't suppose to be real.so chill dude
@Jake the Astronaut lol. Yeah
But if you think about it,an anomoly can occur in any system. so Ai is not really a good choice.ai in little machines is great.but should not be used in dangerous weapons.thats why we humans use analog system for nuclear stuff.
i was just looking up “world’s fastest computer” and I came across this. It just so happens to be housed in the same city as I live. crazy.
Goes from trying to cure cancer to checking if Nuclear bombs will work effectively.👍
But hey the First powerful supercomputer goes from nothing to cancer cure
Joseph Brennan
Would you rather the nukes just explode while in their silos?
Well If there is no cancer they wouldn't have to research that so their first step is to cause it XD
Matthew nukes require a very controlled and precise series of actions to detonate, they won’t just randomly explode once they start to wear down.
Lol thanks Rick Perry
mine some bitcoin with that beast
@@mrmeow1012 you're trying too hard
@@panduadikara9078 weird flex but ok
no stop
I heard it was to make a machine just like in the 2003 paycheck movie.
You most likely don’t even know how to mine Bitcoin
Imagine the guy who accidentally trips on one of the cords and spills water all on it
*SOMEBODIES GETTIN FIRED!*
+Alif literally burned or just kicked from their job?
@@someonebehindascreen6902 getting fired AT
@@someonebehindascreen6902 i think most of them can't find it funny
2 meaning in one sentence
Supercomputer: I'm the boss.
Quantum computer: Hold my beer.
Google Chrome: Hold my new tab 😎
But can it run CoolMathGames
Cool 2kphillips
refrence
UltraAG no
only at 5 fps
UltraAG sadly no ahaha sike you thought it still can’t
At about 9999999999999 fps
can it calculate a better healthcare and education system?
premier69 oof
If they stopped forcing students to learn the things they don't want to and instead interest them in the inner workings behind their favourite subjects we would have a whole less dropouts
Russia spends 8 times as much as the US on their military industrial complex relative to their economy. Why let our enemies win ?
i wasn't talking about the Russians, don't deflect. Also, you are your worst enemy.
@@premier69 I know how it is to live under the influence of the East. Never again. I think you're underestimating the number of people ready to die and ring the whole world down before we let them take over the reins.
At least the verge is covering something they can’t build wrong 😂
that was design not like a messy stove wire on top
It’s not about your LEDs or shiny casing that make this computer..
It’s how good it runs Gary’s Mod with all my mods.
in a few decades, a computer this powerful will be on everybody's desk.
@@beazysaz nope decades
@Aoki Kun moores law is slowing so
millenniums
@@mikakretzmann-clough8543 Moores law didnt take AI into account.
You know, that’s what they said back then and now our phones are more powerful then most powerful computers 50 years ago so I’m not even gonna deny this
bUt CaN iT RUn cRySIs??
Kspeg On medium settings
@@wennick4859 I confirm
Dude its 2019 where have you been living under a rock? Coming here and sayaing "cAn It rUN cRiSys ?"
@@mastershooter64 that's the point to still compare it with crysis ;)
@@mediumQQ that was a decade ago man real men use minecraft
Ahhh War games dejavu😂
One day the computer really wonders like *"does it really explode?"*
Launches a *nuke*
After a few seconds: yeahh it sure does
That's the best reason for a compute nuking us I've heard lol
Imagine the shaders you can run on this thing
Supercomputer: *exists*
US military: its free real state
They don’t even have RGB, how do they expect it to perform?
they use apple's magic software
It has G but no R or B
Nah, they can balance performance by downloading a little more RAM
WRONG! It uses IBM POWER9 CPUs in conjunction with Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs - GPUs that go so far beyond anything you have seen that saying you are clueless is an understatement.
sdushdiu It actually uses a single GTX 210
So now we a have a massive supercomputer working on new Arms race under cover of fear of the old one. Good one Rick
The second wtf I want the most powerful *next*
The password is probably space bar enter🤦♂️
Passwordone
GOD
0000
@@beefgomoo7529 Wasn't that a nuclear launch code at one point for the us?
@@taylorhawthorne5367 yup
I'd rather it keep working on cancer simulations.
But, we have to protect ourselves against our enemies ! You know...everyone !
Also we need to know if 3000 nuclear weapons don't vaporize people
They don’t care about can big pharma company’s are making money from cancer medicine
No money in the cure...people have to stay sick...disgusting
If a perfect world it would. But we don't live in a perfect world...
Rick's howdy looked like it was coming through on DSL. Thankfully the entire world knows where the world's second best computer system is located.
Resident of Livermore here!!! So amazingly incredible that something on this scale of power and intelligence and helpfullness is literally 10 minutes from my house
But can it run Crysis?
Crysis never dies
But can it cause crysis?
Can it run Minecraft?
Probably not, it runs Linux
probably not
People in 20 years will think this computer was a joke 😂😂
Now that's going to be amazing haha.
There are no people thinking even today
Gee, and we can tell that you are a joke right now!
Lol so funny hahaha 😂😂😂😂😱😂😂 ROFLMAO WHAT A GOOD JOKE
Yeah...... This is how you get Skynet
This was more about nuclear weapons info than the computer itself.
The truth here! US war criminal is the biggest threat on planet earth!
That thing could run Solitaire like a dream!
In 30 years people will hold this computing power in their hands.
Nope . In 30 years we will all have quantum computers in our brain
Lucas Sanctus *cough cough Nanocomputers* Whatever it is called
Nah in 50 they will just be able to get laid virtually
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) prolly more like 48
In 30 years we will all be toast.
FACT: If you own a smartphone then you can hold a super computer from 1970 in your hand.
No smartphone ever went to the moon so they aint so smart after all.
@@rethla In many regards our smartphones today are smarter then the computers used for the Moon Landing. Sure those computers are still better, but only at very specific things, and only because they were DESIGNED for that purpose. Generally speaking though, smartphones today are more advanced.
@@rethla moon computer are in the same level of nes videogames.
Tyrose so the Apollo computer was better. It was DESIGNED to do its job. I'd trust that than an Android or an iOS app from an app store.
@@diggerpete9334 like I said, it is better at what it was DESIGNED FOR than a normal smart phone. But like I also said, when it comes to day to day things, and even some other decently advanced things, smart phones are better. I never said phones are better in every way, just most.
One of the only computer that can go into the Nether with shaders and full render distance without going up in flames
Oh, oh, ask it for the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Sorry - I have it working on the problem of how to synthesize a perfectly great cup of tea...
Can it run Garry's mod, along with OBS while streaming on Twitch, along with 5 tabs of Chrome open, while also being in a Discord call with 10 other people for a solid 4-5 hours?
Probably yeah
That times 1000
Everything except the chrome tabs. They are too powerful.
Tactical Janik all hail chrome tabs
One day but not today
"The Weapons come first"
*groan*
Do you presume the enemies of the West have the same misgivings about Russian research ? They certainly work a lot of propaganda to undermine our faith in our militaries so that they can attack our allies.
Directed Energy Weapons(DEW).
@@pAiNfUl666d3ath Funny how our enemies are determined by everyone except the civilians.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Tell that to Poles, Baltics,Bulgarians, Romanians, Israelis, Kuwaitis, South Koreans, etc - everyone who had to suffer from the inferior Oriental civilization
Scimitar the problem is that America is a warmongering war machine used by corporations to start wars for cooperative gain which is usually very shady and full of corruption! It's very disturbing that such corrupt people have the power to wipe out life as we know it...
People in the present:Wow that is a great computer
People in the future: that's my phone
"Why you missed 3 Spells?"
"I got 1k ping, stfu"
So this is why my RAM prices exploded.
Nash Anderson just download some more. Here’s the link: downloadmoreram.com
...dumbass
CGagnon5 r/woooosh
telling someone that their joke sucks isn't a woosh, dipshit @@felixdiamkilgaming1104
@Kurs Hat yeah you can download more ram on Linux, windows (32 or 64 bit) or MacOS
Remember when US Air Force built a supercomputer with thousands of Playstation?
Alpha Adhito what ever happen to that. Did they switch to ps4’s when that came out? Lol
@@newginslab6993 The ps3´s were useless after a patch... lol
while the Navy is using Xbox
really?
@@benlee5039 yup XD no joke search it up
Just imagine playing Valorant at 4000000 fps
At 0:50 I thought he said “We were all created by Rick Perry”. This video was about to turn into something about us all living in a virtual reality.
Skynet is activated.
Notice how it managed to create the conditions for keeping us out of the loop while it strategizes.
Came here looking for this comment. Was not disappointed
@@festivalflightcrew2895 Me too!
@@festivalflightcrew2895 I also came here looking for Skynet, and was not disappointed
Haha
But can it run microsoft flight simulator 2020 at 60fps? I think not.
A few hundred thousand times better than my laptop? Thought it'd be more honestly
I bet its really for cyberwarfare, this century's nukes.
You're probably right, we can probably shut down the entire power grid or communications for any country anywhere in the world.
definitely.
Cuz the more your computer costs and the bigger it is ,the easier it would be to hack someone right?
DarthPepe it can probably run billions of passwords in seconds, so yes.
@@buddyspecialops and what is the system shuts down after three wrong Passwords?
@Nick de windt *cough* windows 7 *cough*
*buys Apple*
*starts a war with a comment to a comment*
Good luck with that, it won't run on this hardware.
As far as I know, Microsoft never release a public version of Windows XP for PowerPC CPUs.
@Nick de windt cough any variant of linux cough
I like XP aswell
Cool stuff. So where do I put 5.25" floppy?
imagine loading all the power of seira onto 1 monitor
Linus is gonna drop it
Yup
Why, it's only got a petabyte of RAM
Can it run my Minecraft sever tho?
A Z imagine the FPS
Nope, but it can run pocket edition
@@Official973Leoo well he said FPS
came here for the minecraft comments... was not disapointed ;)
At max chunks?
The verge building a super computer for there league of legends needs
why not just replace everything in the warhead excluding the plutonium cores with new warheads to make sure that they work still?
Poetic tragedy. All the scientific development ultimately calculates... optimal way to destroy ourselves.
Wow you're so deep
r/im14andthisisdeep
If world war one and 2 didnt happen we probably wouldn't be this technically advanced
@@user-rs3lg6un4n r/im41andworkingadeadendjob
Where did you get that idea from? The overwhelming number of scientific discoveries have absolutely nothing to do with destroying anyone.
0:07 Ok but let's admit that someone dank specifically made sure that the computer had that epyk chassis design. I refuse to believe that the purple accents were coincidental.
There is no way that video is of the actual computer. The whole thing is a psyop.
the purple is just IBM's signature colour for parts you can hot-swap. you'd get the same in any IBM server/mainframe.
Hardly. I'm intimately familiar with the system at LLNL and ORNL....as well as the folks who designed both. World class folks, at that. Great people.
What footage is being shown starting around 3:07? Looks to be an explosion of some kind.
That room must be so cool for all those computers
What it feels like when your school gets new chromebooks
Edit...wow thanks for all the likes!!!
but the chromebooks are still trash
LMFAO! I found it funny, idk :P
Appart from the fact Chromebooks are still trash, they are the biggest spying machines rolled out in the history of mankind.
We have Hp from 2011
What’s chrome book in my school we use paper books
1:31 was the most scary part
Did Rick Perry really have to sign the side of the supercomputer? - 2:53
Computer was simulating cancer growth and helping with real health research, but nuclear weapons comes first, says a lot about the world we live in. Some people just want to see the world burn.
Yes, I think not having 4k+ nukes go off in the US comes a bit before cancer. I mean I guess if those nukes do go off there would be no cancer, since there's not going to be any people
Plus the #1 most powerful is already on curing cancer
Ironically, radiation cures cancer. It's called chemotherapy.
And what if aliens attack Earth? What will we do? Use our weapons that have alot of years?
if they are not maintained they are way more dangerous than any kind of cancer
Bet you it still can't run Minecraft on full settings..
But someone has probably built a Sierra clone in Minecraft.
@@alexanderhetzel8271 Sierra doesn't run Minecraft, Minecraft runs Sierra
Depends - do they use OptiFine?
Just imagine the FPS and ping on a game with that thing
FPS: 10000000
Ping: 0.00000000001ms
I like how it's supposed to be off-limits, but it looks very appealing.
**Buys $100M computer to play ROBLOX!**
🤣
*10 billion
LAME! *E P I C*
that servers will end of support in 3 years haha
Haha was thinking about that too😂😂😂😂
I hope the Verge did not help put that computer together. It would probably blow up worse than one of the nukes. LOL
lol
thedgatmsn like their pc
We are not talking about macs here 👽
SHUBHAM they didn’t build a mac, they built a PC...terribly.
big oof
Now the fastest computer over 30 years in your smartphone.
Seems unreal that so much effort is put into bomb maintenance...Am I in a dream ?
One day this will fit in our pockets.
Quantum Tunneling: *Hold my beer*
Quantum superposition: *Hold and don't hold my beer*
@@akeiai Quantum Immortality: *Hold my Multiverse*
We will prolly destroy humanity before that. Hold on.
@@williamgabriel4323 Time Paradox: *HOLD MY LOOPS*
0:32 Before walking into the radiation room full of computers
1:31 After
Jayduxs uwu Lmfao
😏
LMAO WHY YOU DRAG HIM LIKE THAT 😂
Lmao. That's cold
The new supercomputer should figure out away to have peace on Earth.
And in 30 years, the amount of power found in this computer would be found in something like a smartphone
If it can run ROBLOX smoothly, it’s mine now.
@Galaxi ... What do you mean? Do you even know what you're talking about? You could have 100million fps and play roblox smoothly. It is the HZ of the monitor... I use to play games with almost 1k fps and would have it stocked at 144fps with a 144fps monitor. You wouldn't see the 1k fps because the monitor supports 144 not 1k. lol
@Galaxi And how would it "not keep up" with 60 fps if it has like 1m fps! ?! 🤣
qqwg12345 vsync is what you used, the option limits your max FPS to the Hz of your monitor
@@stef6963 I know what vsync is.... And no i didnt use it. Because if i did how could i see the 1k fps running not 144fps?
This is why the extraterrestrials don't talk to us
At least every current arsenal may be used for the defense of Earth. Maybe
IF DA WORLD IS SICK OF WHITE PEOPLE; WHAT DO YOU THINK THE ALIENS ARE SAYING!!
Do you talk to the ants on your lawn? It's likely that.
NO, it's because they are extra! Normally, the ordinary terrestials are in charge.
xCynder you shoot your nukes, They will shut down electrical grid, I think Ik who to bet on for the win, hint hint, it ain’t the humans
0:21 that looks very similar to that place Rick and his entourage went to in walking dead season 1. The one that got self destructed because it ran out of power...
just wait till they hear about quantum computers
"First, it meant Allied Mastercomputer, and then it meant Adaptive Manipulator, and later on it developed sentience and linked itself up and they called it an Agressive Menace, but by then it was too late, and finally it called itself AM, emerging intelligence and what it meant was I am... cogito ergo sum... I think, therefore I am."
Beat me to the quote
Didn't expect this... 😱
U wot
to quote the angry video game nerd, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!?!"
Rick Perry signature on the side of the rack at 2:53 - who does that??
lackadaisicaal Rick Perry does!
I notice that he had to print his name rather than sign it. Baby steps.
What kind of bizzaro world we are living in... Remember him in the Republican debate - couldn't remember one of the government departments he wanted to scrap. It ended up being the DoE, and he leads it now. You can't make this stuff up 😂😂😂 😲
Luke Rinderknecht lmao republicans are funny asf
@@lukerinderknecht2982
The funny thing is that even though Rick Perry wanted to toss it then, when he retires in the future he will likely va it the most important bureau of the United States.
Imagine in like 50 years all of that will be in a small desktop
nice one
Shall we play a game?
Lets play chess!
1.e4
your move
NUKE c5
Verge should have Brough Matthew Broderick along for the tour.
@@sergiosutti4675 pawn to1b
Shiro Kim you can’t move it there...
Hey Skynet how's it going?
More like Joshua.
@@dsmyify Eyyyyy, The thing is Joshua was actually useful, it was more of a how the hell do we survive a nuclear attack rather than how do we keep our bombs shiny.
Skynet ?
@Donald Trump Watched Terminator long time ago....my friend just mentioned something about the Movie being released in like November/December 1984.....and that supercomputers existed many decades before....
@Donald Trump No way ! What makes you state that ? Hey Trump, you know am challenging you to a boxing match on the Canadian-us border because of the tariffs ,,,,check out my Dragan VS Trump playlist facebook.com/groups/DraganVsTrump/
They use it to plan ahead for bomb drops, the computer simulated the best possible place to drop a bomb for best destruction on any place
are you guys gonna make a build tutorial on this
Rick Perry signed the side of the mainframe at @2:52?! smh
Imagine designing a VR game with this...
Maybe a VR training environment for surgeons, pilots , fire fighters etc to use on head sets connected to gaming rigs.
There also using VR for exposure therapy for fears like hights mabey use it to help with fear of spiders as well and realistic spiders would be very resource heavy seen as they move and you want much more resources to develop on than the game will need to run.
I think the market for non game games could very well eventually end up as big as the rest of the gaming market.
Ooof SAO?
16K resolution at 1000FPS
Well who knew the la-li-lu-le-lo and cipher were real...
"Weapons come first "
They are just copying macOS names lmao
true but apple are copying mountain names I guess
@@gh_pics and mountain names are mostly copying their Explorer's names
I WAS JUST COMING DOWN TO POINT THAT OUT! Lol is there some sort of reason for that order historically tho? Like old ships or something maybe
Is this reddit?
Did you know windows 7's code name was mojave?