hey guys,
good news, I have a friend who knows a friend who is the boyfriend of someone's aunt who has access to the IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand super computer at the Department of Energy, in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I forwarded the last suggestion of ApartClassic, and I secured some computing time on the POWER9: an entire day ! Mind you, the machine has only 2.41 million cores and is only capable of 148.6 petaflops, so the computing power could not be sufficient.... but it is possible we might get an answer to the question "what is skill in WoWP" ! Aren't we a lucky bunch ?
Now if you will allow me, I want to share with you guys a science fiction short story of Frederic Brown:
Answer
by Fredric Brown, 1954
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the sub-ether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe – ninety-six billion planets – into the super-circuit that would connect them all into the one super-calculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a moment’s silence, he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.”
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.”
“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”
He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?”
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
“Yes, now there is a God.”
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.