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Chitchat China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer – Using Its Own Chips!

yellowarse

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China has done it again – topped the world's supercomputer speed list.

3 notable achievements:

1. This time around they used their own home-made processors. Ironically, it was the 2015 US trade embargo forced China to up its own processor development.

2. For the first time in history, China now has more supercomputers in the Top 500 list than the US – 167 vs 165. Amazing, considering that a mere 10 years back, there were no Chinese supercomputers in the top 30.

3. The Sunway TaihuLight is 3x fast than the previous record holder, Tianhe-2, and 5x faster than its nearest US rival.

Eat your heart out, Boss Sam.:smile:


Chinese supercomputer is the world's fastest — and without using US chips

20 June 2016

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A new supercomputer from China has topped the latest list of the world's most powerful machines.

The 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi.

At its peak, the computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second.

It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500 which released the new list on Monday.

Its main applications include advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting and big data analytics, wrote Jack Dongarra in a paper about the new machine.

It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.

For the first time since the list began, China has overtaken the US with 167 computers in the top 500 while the US has 165.

"Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with none ranked in the top 30, the nation has come further and faster than any other country in the history of supercomputing," said Top500.

The US has four supercomputers in the top 10 of the Top500 list, while China has two which currently occupy the top two places.

The other positions in the top 10, published twice a year, are occupied by machines from Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Saudi Arabia.

"As a computer scientist it's difficult writing software that can take advantage of and control large numbers of computer cores," said Professor Les Carr from the University of Southampton.

"This is why supercomputers are restricted to specialised applications - you need very specialised computing needs to take advantage of them.

"They are like extremely high-spec Grand Prix racing cars - they are fantastic for racing on circuits but they're not great for travelling from London to Edinburgh."

 

frenchbriefs

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wow sinkieland can shut down now.is there any reason or purpose for our existence at all?how can we even call ourselves a smart nation?does ah loong have any shame?
 

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China builds world's fastest supercomputer - using its own chips.............stolen from the Americans.
 

scroobal

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Its all about context. People will be shocked if India built a supercomputer despite having legions of computer professionals distributed all around the world even some claiming to work in NASA.. If China built the fastest supercomputer I don't think anyone will be surprised. If the Americans built the fastest supercomputer nobody will give a fuck.

If however India or China developed Uber, we would wonder with a high dose of scepticism if it had legs. If China developed a Uber clone, nobody again gives a fuck. If India develops a Uber clone, we would certainly be shocked not because of ethics as they too would sell their mother for a buck, its just that they rather talk about it than actually do anything.

Now back to China's supercomputer. When they first built the fastest supercomputer in 2013, the question that was top of mind was what they were going to do with it that will change the World or come close to it. They never provided the answer but gave some generic answer. Its 3 years later and they now beat their own record. This time the press did not bother asking the same question. Instead this was headline from one press report - "China beats China with world’s fastest supercomputer" https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/20/china-beats-china-with-worlds-fastest-supercomputer/?ncid=rss
 

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New watch Xijinping exports his powerful CPU against Intel AMD and ARMS.

All the desktop laptops, smart phones, tablets, set top boxes, switched to Chinese CPU.

Ang Moh are deeply FUCKED!
 

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It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.


LINUX ROCKS!

Look at my OS Kernal is latest Linux:




$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.4.0-24-generic (buildd@lgw01-12) (gcc version 5.3.1 20160413 (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2.1) ) #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:27:37 UTC 2016
$ uname -a
Linux localhost 4.4.0-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:27:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 

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What makes TaihuLight stand head and shoulders above its rivals even in the stratospheric world of supercomputers is not just its speed, but also its execution and power efficiency, and its ability to translate that speed into real-world application software.


China’s New Supercomputer Puts the US Even Further Behind
BRIAN BARRETT
06.21.16
3:00 PM

THIS WEEK, CHINA’S Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China. What used to be an arms race for supercomputing primacy among technological nations has turned into a blowout.

The Sunway TaihuLight is indeed a monster: theoretical peak performance of 125 petaflops, 10,649,600 cores, and 1.31 petabytes of primary memory. That’s not just “big.” Former Indiana Pacers center Rik Smits is big. This is, like, mountain big. Jupiter big.
TaihuLight’s abilities are matched only by the ambition that drove its creation. Fifteen years ago, China claimed zero of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Today, it not only has more than everyone else—including the United States—but its best machine boasts speeds five times faster than the best the US can muster. And, in a first, it achieves those speeds with purely China-made chips.

Think of TaihuLight, then, not in terms of power but of significance. It’s loaded with it, not only for what it can do, but how it does it.

The Super Supercomputer

If you think of a supercomputer as a souped-up version of what you’re playing EVE Online with at home, well, as it turns out you’re not entirely wrong. “At one level they’re not very different from your desktop system,” says Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (home to Mira, the world’s sixth-fastest supercomputer). “They have a processor that looks very similar to the one in a laptop or desktop system—there’s just a lot of them connected together.”

Your MacBook, for example, uses four cores; Mira harnesses just under 800,000. It uses those them to simulate and study everything from weather patterns to the origins of the universe. The faster the supercomputer, the more precise the models and simulations.

On that basis alone, TaihuLight is a singular accomplishment. Its 10.6 million cores are more than three times the previous leader, China’s Tianhe-2, and nearly 20 times the fastest U.S. supercomputer, Titan, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “It’s running very high rates of execution speed, very good efficiency, and very good power efficiency,” says University of Tennessee computer scientist Jack Dongarra. “It’s really quite impressive.”

If anyone’s qualified to say so, it’s Dongarra. He created the benchmark by which supercomputers were first compared in 1993 by TOP500, the organization that still ranks them today, and published the first independent evaluation [PDF] of TaihuLight’s capabilities.

Still, hardware’s not everything. Because supercomputers run specialized tasks, they require specialized software. “You can use a factory as an example,” says Papka. “A lot of people are working on putting a car together at the same time, but they’re all working in a coordinated manner. People who write programs for supercomputers have to get all of the pieces working together.”

TaihuLight passes that test, too. In fact, three of the six finalists for a prestigious high-performance computing award are applications built to run on TaihuLight. Aside from relatively slow memory—a conscious trade off to save money and power consumption—this rig is ready to go to work. “This is not a stunt machine,” says Dongarra. And it’s years ahead of anything the US has.

A Command Line Lead

TaihuLight is faster than anything scheduled to come online in the US until 2018, when three Department of Energy sites will each receive a machine expected to range from 150 to 200 petaflops. That’s ahead of where China is now—but two years is half an eternity in computer-time. That the lead has gotten so large galls some lawmakers for reasons both political and practical. Legislation exists calling for a supercomputer funding boost, but has spent the last year mired in the Senate.

“Massive domestic gains in computing power are necessary to address the national security, scientific, and health care challenges of the future,” says Rep. Randy Hultgren, a Republican from Illinois whose American Super Computing Leadership Act has twice been passed by the House of Representatives. “It is increasingly evident that America is losing our lead.” Meanwhile the DOE is working on innovating with the budget it has.

The other significant TaihuLight achievement stings US interests even more, because it’s political. China’s last champ, Tianhe-2, had Intel inside. But in February of 2015, the Department of Commerce, citing national security concerns—supercomputers excel at crunching metadata for the NSA and their foreign equivalents—banned the sale of Intel Xeon processor to Chinese supercomputer labs.

Rather than slow the rate of Chinese supercomputer technology, the move appears to have had quite the opposite effect. “I believe the Chinese government put more research funding into the projects to develop and put in place indigenous processors,” Dongarra says. “The result of that, in some sense, is this machine today.”

A Race Worth Winning

Broadly, it’s true that better supercomputers benefit the whole world, assuming scientists get to work on them. It doesn’t exactly matter what flavor the chips are. “On some level, it’s a trophy that you put on your mantel,” Dongarra says. “But what’s more important is what kind of science it does, what kind of discoveries you make.”

TaihuLight’s stewards tell Dongarra that they’re putting all that power toward advanced manufacturing, Earth-system modeling and weather forecasting, life science, and big data analytics. That sounds like a broad range, but it’s just a small slice of what supercomputers’ capabilities comprise. “Each time we make an increase, we can add more science to the problem,” Papka says. “For the foreseeable future, until we can model the real world on a quark-for-quark basis, we’ll need more powerful computers.”

And those computers are coming—especially if the US gets serious about catching up.

 

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They may have a fast computer but they don't have a clue how to use it to their advantage so why bother?
 

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As a known astute individual I am surprised that you missed the point completely. The aim is to show who has the biggest willy for the benefit of their countrymen. Whether the willy can perform is not even in the equation. Look at the development of their native commercial aircraft. Generally regarded as straight engineering from freely available design and technology which requires deep pocket and subsequently strong commercial market demand. And China had both. Its nearly 30 years.

They may have a fast computer but they don't have a clue how to use it to their advantage so why bother?
 

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As a known astute individual I am surprised that you missed the point completely. The aim is to show who has the biggest willy for the benefit of their countrymen. Whether the willy can perform is not even in the equation. Look at the development of their native commercial aircraft. Generally regarded as straight engineering from freely available design and technology which requires deep pocket and subsequently strong commercial market demand. And China had both. Its nearly 30 years.

I am fully aware that they're using it as phallic symbol.

My point is that they don't have the skills or the creativity to harness the computing power. They can probably build the world's fastest F1 car too if they set their minds to it but no chink can out drive Hamilton, Vettel or Rosberg.
 

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I am not sure if I agree with the point below. I don't think they have reached the ability to close the technology gap. Maybe 95%. Look at Honda who at one point were the World's best at F1 and the engines were unbeatable. They then left and when they tried to get back in the game in 2015, they struggled and badly at that.

I do however agree on driver capability. Not just the Chinese, all Asians as well. You need the culture that allows kids to become champions not just in sports but in other aspects as well. Look at our National shooters. With nearly every male Singaporean have been trained in firearms, we cannot identify and deliver a shooter of Olympic medal winning standard and we have had NS for 48 years.

My point is that they don't have the skills or the creativity to harness the computing power. They can probably build the world's fastest F1 car too if they set their minds to it but no chink can out drive Hamilton, Vettel or Rosberg.
 

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this supercomputer would be useful if this was back in the 1970s where there was no computers and they only had these gigantic computer mainframes that u had to use dumb terminals in various locations to connect to it and make use of its computing power.

but dont worry,once artificial intelligence is invented this Sunway Taihulight supercomputer will become host to the first super intelligent matrix brain,it will become this almighty omnipotent artificial intelligent sentient entity brain with a polygonal mask of a human face as a proxy to give it a "identity" as humans do not comprehend the concept of a being without shape or form,this super entity or "brain" will know everything in the universe and control every function of the physical world thru a tesseract.

either that or the super computer will be used to calculate the speed of making wang wang biscuits and how to increase efficiency of making andriod smartphone covers by 37 percent.
 
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yellowarse

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They may have a fast computer but they don't have a clue how to use it to their advantage so why bother?

It's just not for bragging rights alone, though that's a great motivating factor. It's the application potential, particularly in weather forecasting, nuclear design and big data. Rest assured these supercomputers won't be sitting idle collecting trophies in the cabinet.

With climate change and billions of dollars lost annually to weather catastrophes (China has the world's second greatest number of storm systems and drastic weather events after the US), the Chinese have built their climate modelling to a level that's almost on par with the US, with the help of supercomputers and vast historical data. In some aspects, they're probably more advanced, especially in the area of predicting heavy rainfall (crucial in a monsoon climate): http://www.scmp.com/tech/science-re...-next-month-chinese-scientists-claim-they-can

15 years ago, the Chinese sent their best meteorological scientists to the US to learn from the state-of-the-art technology there; today the US send their guys over to China on exchange programs.

As for nuclear design, for all the talk about disarmament, none of the major nuclear powers are letting up in their development of 3rd and 4th generation nuclear-capable weapons. It's all big power politics.
 

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iv got another idea,china has plans to turn all their citizens into supersoldiers and implant chips in their brains,and this super computer is the only way u can manage all the chinks at once.what a grand masterplan for world domination.
 
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