[syadasti]

China's Tianhe-1A is world's fastest supercomputer, plans to usurp the West now complete

It happened. China just passed the US and the world with the reveal of the world's fastest supercomputer. The fully operational Tianhe-1A, located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, scored 2.507 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. That moves it past Cray's 2.3 petaflops Jaguar located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Tianhe-1A achieved the record using 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs consuming 4.04 megawatts. Knowing that 10 petaflops is within reach by 2012, we'll see if Tianhe-1A can maintain its title when the new Top500 supercomputers list is released next week.

http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F579F09&version=live&prid=678988&releasejsp=release_157

 

[IH8Rice]

yeah, but can it play Crysis?


going from 2.5 petaflops to 10 in a little over a year is a lofty goal, no?

 

[jonKranked]

knowing china they just wanna play WoW

 

[syadasti]

Its still a product of the West. It will be impressive when a title is achieved with Chinese designed hardware and software solutions.

 

[jonKranked]

Its still a product of the West. It will be impressive when a title is achieved with Chinese designed hardware and software solutions.

a kirf'ed cray?

 

[IH8Rice]

knowing china they just wanna play WoW

sorry, you missed the joke

 

[sanjuro]

But I am still China's Ultimate Hard Drive.

 

[ridiculous]

Its still a product of the West. It will be impressive when a title is achieved with Chinese designed hardware and software solutions.

true. This record wont stand for long. Being used by the defense dept over there....I wonder what they are analyzing, with what data, and what engineers?

 

[IH8Rice]

But I am still China's Ultimate Hard Drive.

first time i saw that movie, i was tripping balls and had no idea wtf was going on.

 

[sanjuro]

first time i saw that movie, i was tripping balls and had no idea wtf was going on.

Take away the 90's novelty about the intraweb, the movie sucks. It could have been a corny 30's detective movie.

The budget was relatively low at $25 million, but Robocop painted a much bleeker techno-future at half the cost.

 

[IH8Rice]

but Robocop painted a much bleeker techno-future at half the cost.

i know right. everyone was driving Ford Taurus's around

 

[Kevin]

No Q bits no care.

 

[ohio]

petaflop

hehehe

 

[ridiculous]

zerohedge speculated that china would oust the us in HFT with this super computer. I lolled a little.

 

[jimmydean]

petaflop

hehehe

That belongs in the pre-teen giggle thread.

 

[manimal]

knowing china they just wanna play WoW

Reroy Jenkins!!!!

 

[jonKranked]

Reroy Jenkins!!!!

ROR

 

[splat]

I wonder how long it takes Windows to blue screen ?

 

[dante]

I wonder how long it takes Windows to blue screen ?

1/2,507,000,000,000sec?

 

[MikeD]

Why use this computer at all? You'll just need to run your program again an hour later...