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Chinese claim to have world's fastest supercomputer with machine that performs 2,507 trillion calculations a SECOND
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:16 AM on 29th October 2010
IT IS already close to overtaking the U.S. as the world's economic superpower.
Now China has trumped the Americans in the fastest supercomputer stakes – by building a machine which is said to be 40 times faster than any other.
The Chinese supercomputer, called the Tianhe-1A, crunches numbers at warp speed – at a mind-boggling two thousand trillion calculations a second.
The Chinese computer Tianhe-1 is believed to have breaking the computing record
The £50 million machine took 200 engineers two years to build, and needs to be housed in 103 refridgerated cabinets.
It has a speed of 2.507 petaflops – 1.4 times as powerful as the current supercomputer, the Cray XT5 Jaguar at the U.S. Department of Energy, which has held the crown for the past year.
Professor Jack Dongarra, who compiles the rankings of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers, said the Chinese computer 'blows away the existing No 1 machine'.
Mr Dongarra's list is not due to be completed until next week, but he predicts that no other machine will come close to matching the Tianhe.
'It's definitely a game changer,' said Mark Seager, chief technology officer for computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S.
The Tianhe-1A, whose name means Milky Way in mandarin, has 14,000 times the processing power of a normal machine.
It also contains 7,000 graphics processors – the type used in video games – to further boost its power.
But despite its incredible speed the Tianhe-1A is also greener than the current top supercomputer – with the difference in energy consumption enough to provide electricity to more than 5,000 homes for a year.
World's fastest supercomputers (provisional)
| Name | Peak computing speed (pflops) | Processor | Site, country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tianhe-1 | 2.507 | NVidia | National Centre for Supercomputing, China |
| Jaguar | 1.75 | Cray Xt5 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US |
| Roadrunner | 1.042 | Bladecenter | Los Alamos National Laboratory, US |
| Kraken | 831.70 | Cray XT5 | National Institute for Computational Sciences, US |
| Jugene | 825.50 | Blue Gene | Jülich Research Centre, Germany |
| Pleiades | 772.70 | SGI Altix ICE | Nasa Ames Research Centre, US |
| Blue Gene | 478.20 | eServer Blue Gene | Laurence Livermore Lab, US |
| Intrepid | 458.61 | Blue Gene | Argonne National Laboratory, US |
| Red Sky | 433.50 | Sun Constellation | Sandia National Laboratories, US |
The machine, designed by China's National University of Defence Technology, is housed in the northern port city of Tianjin, where it has been used so far to process weather patterns for the city's meteorological bureau, and to crunch numbers for the oil industry.
Experts say its creation serves as a wake-up call to the West, showing how China threatens to take the lead in investment in technology.
Supercomputers allow research that could not otherwise be carried out because it involves such complex calculations. The machines are also used in modelling weather systems, simulating nuclear explosions and designing airliners.
Oil and gas firms use supercomputing technology to find reservoirs and Wall Street traders rely on it for automated trades.
The only consolation for the U.S., which is to lose bragging rights to the top spot for the first time since 2004, is that the processing chips used to power China's rival machine were made in America.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324557/China-builds-worlds-fastest-supercomputer.html#ixzz13joQA4yW
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