Computers - Software Hardware : Today's top supercomputer is owned by China, powered by Intel

[jamesfrmphilly]

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Milky Way-2, also known as "Tianhe-2," clusters together more than 32,000 Intel Xeon microprocessors as well as more than 48,000 Intel Xeon Phi chips, the server equivalent of a graphics coprocessor. All told, the two groups of chips can crunch the equivalent of 33.86 petaflops of performance, about double that of Titan, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. A "flop" is a floating point operation, one of the basic metrics of a computer performance; a petaflop is a thousand trillion floating point operations.​

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2042...-by-china-powered-by-intel.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

 

[Gorilla]

That thing is nice. I wonder what they use it for on a regular basis. It would be cool if they launched a Chinese crypto-currency. Something as public as the other ones that are out there but not subject to U.S law would be an interesting alternative in the mix.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

I wonder what they use it for on a regular basis..

probably to hack us….

 

[Gorilla]

probably to hack us….

Or the NSA. That's two birds, one super computer.

 

[skuderjaymes]

TOP10 June 2013

1 Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) - TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C 2.200GHz, TH Express-2, Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P
NUDT
2 Titan - Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
Cray Inc.
3 Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom
IBM
4 K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect
Fujitsu
5 Mira - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
IBM
6 Stampede - PowerEdge C8220, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi SE10P
Dell
7 JUQUEEN - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
IBM
8 Vulcan - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
IBM
9 SuperMUC - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz, Infiniband FDR
IBM
10 Tianhe-1A - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93 GHz, NVIDIA 2050
NUDT

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