Supercomputer great success for China

China’s world-leading new supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, is built on a foundation of general-purpose computing and graphics processing units (GPUs).

… on Oct. 28, Tianhe-1A achieved a sustained performance of 2.507 petaflop (2.507 quadrillion calculations every second)… [It is configured] with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs.

The next fastest computer in the world is Jaguar, a Cray supercomputer at Oakridge National Labs in Tennessee, in the U.S.A. It’s peak performance is 1.75 petaflop. Tianhe-1A is 1.425 times faster than Jaguar.

China Designs and Builds Fastest Supercomputer in the World

Tianhe is the Fastest Supercomputer in the World

via Supercomputer Tianhe great success for China: says German expert.

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  1. On 13 June 2011 at 12:15 pm You May Need This One Day « Ellie Asks Why said:

    […] ** For example, scalable parallel programming with CUDA on processors with many cores. Or China’s entry in the November 2010 edition of the TOP500, as the fastest supercomputer in the world. […]

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