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China, owners of the supercomputer crown. - Mark - 28-10-2010
China, owners of the supercomputer crown.
China has recently just claimed the top spot on the list of the world's supercomputers.
The title has gone to China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2,500 trillion calculations a second.
To reach such high speeds the machine draws on more than 7,000 Nvidia powered graphics processors and 14,000 Intel chips.
China's Tianhe-1A (Milky Way) has taken over the top spot from America's XT5 Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee that can carry out only 1.75 petaflops per second. One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second making the Tianhe-1A 50% faster. I'm sure someone just made up that word...
The claim to be the fastest machine on the planet has been ratified by the Top 500 Organisation which maintains a list of the most powerful machines on the planet. The news about the machine broke just before the publication of the biennial Top 500 Supercomputer list which ranks the world's most powerful machines.
Quote:"This is all true, I was in China last week and talked with the designers, saw the system, and verified the results."
The chips inside graphics cards are typically made up of small arithmetical units that can carry out simple sums very quickly. By contrast, Intel chips are typically used to carry out more complicated mathematical operations.
The machine houses its processors in more than 100 fridge-sized cabinets and together these weigh more than 155 tonnes.
Based in China's National Center for Supercomputing in the city of Tianjin, the computer has already started to do work for the local weather service and the National Offshore Oil Corporation.
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RE: China, owners of the supercomputer crown. - Special Chris - 31-10-2010
Why is there a super computer in Tennessee?
RE: China, owners of the supercomputer crown. - Mark - 31-10-2010
They probably like the flashing lights.
RE: China, owners of the supercomputer crown. - bigsharn - 31-10-2010
They use it to calculate what ingredients taste better in moonshine
RE: China, owners of the supercomputer crown. - T3hRogue - 31-10-2010
How to lynch blacks best. >.<
RE: China, owners of the supercomputer crown. - Special Chris - 31-10-2010
(31-10-2010, 10:54 AM)bigsharn Wrote: They use it to calculate what ingredients taste better in moonshine
I'm PRETTY DAMN SURE they don't need it for that. The flashing lights? Probably.