Mexico’s super-computer

MXPE Weekly Essentials ft. a worrying fix to government arrogance, what budget cuts look like and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.

MXPE Weekly Essentials. Only the most important news in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.

Last week’s highlights:

• Mexican super-computer—Mexico is proposing to create the world’s sixth most powerful super-computer. It will contain 14,480 GPUs and will be ready in two years, said José Merino—Sheinbaum’s powerful “digital transformation” tsar—at which time Coatlicue (as the computer is called) will be able to provide an enormous amount of processing power (314 petaflops, in the computing jargon).
  The idea is beguiling. A publicly accessible super-computer would be of