China Claims World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer 7th Year In A Row
China has been named the home of the fastest supercomputer for the 7th year in a row.
But for the first time, and what makes this year’s choice unique, is the fact that this year’s winning computer has won using only Chinese designed processors.
The computer based in the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, and named Sunway TaihuLight was designed and developed by the Chinese National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology.
With an ability to process 93 petaflops that also makes it just about three times faster than the previous record setter, the Tianhe-2, also Chinese, which was clocked at being able to process 33.85 petaflops.
The TaihuLight can perform approximately a quadrillion calculations a second, which is much faster than the Tianhe-2, built with US designed processors can achieve. In theory, the TaihuLight could achieve peak a peak performance of 124 petaflops.
That China has been trying to develop a 100 petaflop system (or close enough for it not to really matter) isn’t exactly new, well, news, but it was widely anticipated that the Chinese would use US based Intel company chips to reach the fabled 100 petaflop barrier.
However, the US banned Intel from shipping the Xeon chips to Chinese super computer manufacturers last year because they claimed that last year’s winner, the Tianhe-2 was being used for predictive simulations to do with nuclear explosive experiments.
The irony of the embargo is that China just went ahead and upped its own processor development.
As well as claiming the top spot for the world’s most powerful supercomputer for yet another year, 2016 also marks the first year that China has surpassed the US for the first time as being the country with highest number of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, albeit only just. The US has 165, China has 167.
Other countries to make the top 10 included Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia.
Tyler Myers
How is it a race when America is talking about the distant future, while China is doing it RIGHT now?
The US ban has merely delayed China by a mere matter of months, and instead of one exascale with US tech, as China's upgrades would have ben this year, 2016 will use not just one domestically designed product, but likely a different one for each project, in addition to Chinese designed technology and advancements.
If anything, the US's schizophrenic, paranoid foreign policies have just helped speed up Chinese advanced tech development and adoption, and caused the US lose quite a contract and gain competitors.
Nicholas Rogers
Well the Chinese children go to school 7 days a week so.
Including homework, yes. Chinese always have endless homework to do.
Smarter than you are.
Blake Jenkins
China owns the US.
The US is owned by China.
Kayden Morris
good for China... i hoping to see some great advances in medical and tech fields in the coming years...
Brandon Moore
This is great news. Should mean the market is more competitive now.
Thomas Ramirez
Let's all give China a round of applause then
Nicholas Thompson
Can it play Cyrsis 1?
Colton Myers
Kek, buttpaine much
Carter Moore
lol
Liam Miller
repost pasta
Matthew Garcia
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Landon Gutierrez
still piggy backing on intel? what's your point?
Juan Torres
>China owns the US. >The US is owned by China.
>China Claims World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer 7th Year In A Row >China has been named the home of the fastest supercomputer for the 7th year in a row.
Ian Johnson
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Ayden Morales
>tfw when part of something that can cause so much anal devastation without even trying I'll never regret joining the internet It's like I get delivered a fresh bottle of tears every day
