5 super-cool supercomputers

[tioliaohuat]

[h=2]The Chinese reclaimed the top spot on June's 'Top500' fastest supercomputers list with a system almost twice as fast as any other.[/h]

China's new Tianhe-2 supercomputer officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world on Monday by blowing America's Titan supercomputer out of the water.


A group of computer scientists and engineers who twice a year release the "Top500" list of fastest supercomputers measured the Tianhe-2 at 33.9 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second). That's nearly twice as fast as the Titan, which was relegated to the second spot on the list.


Also dubbed Milkyway-2, Tianhe-2 came online two years before expected. It was manufactured by China's National University of Defense Technology and will be relocated to the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho in southwest China by the end of this year.


NUDT has listed several possible uses for Tianhe-2, including simulations for testing airplanes, processing "big data," and aiding in government security.


The last time a Chinese system landed on the list's top spot was in 2010 when the Tianhe-1 was ranked the fastest in the world.
NEXT: Titan (United States)

 

[longbow]

No big deal. Just a reflection of size of country's economy and ensuing R&D requirements from indsutry and military

 

[Leongsam]

You buy Intel chips and solder them altogether and it's called R & D ???? Give me a break.

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Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (En: Milky Way-2) is a 33.86[SUP][2][/SUP] PetaFLOP supercomputer in China.[SUP][1][/SUP] It was placed in service ahead of schedule in 2013 after it had been expected to be completed in 2015.[SUP][3][/SUP] It is currently the world's fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 list for June 2013.

It is housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou (NSCC-GZ) and was designed and developed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and by Inspur. Inspur contributed to the manufacturing of the printed circuit boards and is also contributing to the system installation and testing.


There are 16,000 compute nodes, each comprising two Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon processors and three Xeon Phi chips for a total of 3,120,000 cores.[SUP][2][/SUP]
Resource management is based on Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM).

 

[Cestbon]

You buy Intel chips and solder them altogether and it's called R & D ???? Give me a break.

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Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (En: Milky Way-2) is a 33.86[SUP][2][/SUP] PetaFLOP supercomputer in China.[SUP][1][/SUP] It was placed in service ahead of schedule in 2013 after it had been expected to be completed in 2015.[SUP][3][/SUP] It is currently the world's fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 list for June 2013.

It is housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou (NSCC-GZ) and was designed and developed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and by Inspur. Inspur contributed to the manufacturing of the printed circuit boards and is also contributing to the system installation and testing.


There are 16,000 compute nodes, each comprising two Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon processors and three Xeon Phi chips for a total of 3,120,000 cores.[SUP][2][/SUP]
Resource management is based on Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM).

Ha haa...............anyone have money can built supercomputer .

 

[Leongsam]

Ha haa...............anyone have money can built supercomputer .

The software they're using is FREE! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Linux_Utility_for_Resource_Management

The chinks have no shame. :*:

 

[watchman8]

China today reminds me of Malaysia and Sinkieland in the 90s. Always boasting about world's first this or that. But in actual fact, the achievements are just copy cats, nothing to shout about.

China nowadays like to boast about their space technology (copies from russia), and super computers (copied from USA). But what technological breakthrough can China really be proud of? I can't think of any.

A sure sign of coming decline of China.

 

[greedy and cunning]

You buy Intel chips and solder them altogether and it's called R & D ???? Give me a break.

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they bought AMD chips and WELDED them together.



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advice vs advise :*:

 

[LordKrishna]

India is not far behind.

India's fastest supercomputer 'Param Yuva II' unveiled
Saturday, Feb 9, 2013,



This is the first supercomputer that has crossed 500 teraflops in computing power in the country.

Stating that the Union government was committed to ensuring that India was the top destination for research and development globally, secretary of the department of electronics and information technology J Satyanarayana congratulated C-DAC Pune for launching Param Yuva II, the fastest supercomputer in India and 62nd fastest in the world. The supercomputer is expected to be of great help to the scientific community.

Satyanarayana was speaking after unveiling the computer at the C DAC premises in Pune on Friday. Director general of CDAC Rajat Moona and executive director of C-DAC Hemant Darbari was also present on the occasion.

Satyanarayana said "Research and development can be a major thrust area for India going forward. Computational infrastructure like Param Yuva II is necessary to achieve this."

Darbari said that this supercomputer would be of great use to the scientific community. He said "Areas like weather forecasting, seismic data analysis, scientific data processing will all be benefitted due to Param Yuva II. We were doing weather forecasting of over 58,000 villages with param yuva. Now we can double that number at a minimum. Industries like pharmaceuticals, bio informatics, aeronautical engineering will also benefit. Seismic data processing can be done much more efficiently with this new computer."

He said the main users of the supercomputer would be the scientific institutes, research laboratories and universities.

"Through the national knowledge network, the Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology can be linked to this computer. Pharmaceutical companies can use it for drug discovery as can the high performance computing community. The computer has been upgraded at a cost of Rs15 crore.”

This is the first supercomputer that has crossed 500 teraflops in computing power in the country.

 

[tioliaohuat]

[h=1]Xi Jinping applauds success of world's fastest supercomputer[/h]
BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated those involved in the success of Tianhe-2, the world's fastest supercomputer.
In a statement available on Tuesday, Xi extended greetings to all the staff who took part in the development of Tianhe-2, which has a peak performance speed of 54.9 quadrillion operations per second.
Xi said the success showed that China has gained a leading place in the world in this field. He encouraged scientists to make further contributions and achievements in a bid to help build an innovative country.
The semiannual Top 500 listing of the world's fastest supercomputers was released on Monday.
Tianhe-2 is almost twice as fast as the second computer, Titan from the United States.
Tianhe-2 was designed and built by China's National University of Defense Technology. The computer matched home-grown Feiteng-1500 CPUs as well as Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi processors.
This is the second time China has made it to first place in the Top 500 list. Tianhe-2's predecessor, Tianhe-1A, was the world's fastest supercomputer from November 2010 to June 2011.

 

[tioliaohuat]

another 1st

[h=1]Submersible Jiaolong completes 2nd deep-sea dive[/h]
China’s submersible Jiaolong has completed its second diving operation in the South China Sea with a scientist on board.
Zhou Huaiyang is a professor of deep-sea studies from the School of Ocean and Earth Science of Tongji University. He collected geological samples and deep-sea environmental data. Tuesday’s dive also continued with tests on Jiaolong’s positioning system.

Photo taken on June 17, 2013 shows China's manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong in the
South China Sea, south China. Jiaolong finished the first diving operation for its first
voyage of experimental application in the South China Sea at about 4:30 p.m. (0830 GMT)
on June 17. Jiaolong set a new dive record after reaching a depth of 7,062 meters in the
Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench in June 2012. (Xinhua/Zhang Xudong)
In future dives, 13 other scientists from various fields will study the ocean depths from the Jiaolong.
The submersible completed its first deep-sea dive in the South China Sea on Monday afternoon, the start of a 113-day-long mission. The mission marks the start of a five-year trial period for the Jiaolong before it goes into regular operation.

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