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.
Charles Reyes
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.
Dominic Ortiz
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.
Jason Garcia
China owns the US.
The US is owned by China.
Easton Jones
good for China... i hoping to see some great advances in medical and tech fields in the coming years...
David Robinson
This is great news. Should mean the market is more competitive now.
>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.
Great, lets see if it can solve China's socioeconomic, political and environmental problems.
Quit bumping your own thread, faggot. Rice niggers aren't brilliant, their IP thieves that steal other people's hard work.
I don't give a frog's fat ass if they have the fastest computer, 98% of their country is still a third world shithole.
Sage.
Jayden Moore
sorry
no faggot here
must b u ;;))
Joshua Rodriguez
You aren't allowed to say that you saged, faggot.
Nicholas Kelly
Why are you posting this every couple of hours you fucking idiot. Kys
Jonathan Smith
Why are you posting this every couple of hours you fucking idiot. Kys
Brandon Allen
sorry
no fucking idiot here
must b u ;;))
you fucking idiot.
Kys
Zachary Martinez
sorry
no faggot here
must b u ;;))
, faggot.
Isaiah Watson
dis is why we need trump. He will stop china
Carson Watson
bump
Angel Rogers
That's not how it works, newfag. Go read the rules again.
Zachary Walker
bump
Kevin Howard
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Christian Hughes
bump
Nolan Gomez
SHRIMPS.
CHINA NUMBA 1
Charles Howard
>Rice niggers aren't brilliant, their IP thieves that steal other people's hard work.
This. US companies are not allowed to export the latest technology to certain countries (Some countries are totally banned from our tech exports). I think it has to be least 18 months old before it can be exported.
Dylan Myers
Too bad your average china man is a fucking idiot.
Ian Barnes
check out those "chinese" processors. they're just ripped off from other companies. China doesn't develop new shit, they just mimic existing things.
Jeremiah Hughes
YOU'RE MAKING THE BABY CRY STOP FIGHTING
Aiden Collins
>snowniggers gonna snownig pigskins in decline, deal with it faggot
Jordan Carter
how's that economic decline treating you chinafags? still think that you can fast track a consumer economy without proper wages and currency transparency?
Grayson Torres
Typical eurofag can't see long term. Murca gonna be paying off their debts for the next several generations. Meanwhile Chinese are buying up properties in all major cities, leaving snowniggers out of the market and out of jobs without access to metropolis kek. Winning a world war without firing a single bullet.
Juan Martin
POO
Benjamin Evans
>using only Chinese designed processors >Chinese designed processors >Chinese designed >Implying they aren't just reverse engineered from Intel processors >Implying the Chinese would invest manhours into designing something for which a design they could steal already exists >Implying international IP is safe from the Chinese
Gabriel Fisher
China is more in debt than the U.S. in comparitiveness.
China owes the U.S. more than the U.S. owe China.
any property owned by foreigners in the U.S. can be seized at any moment, the precedence has already been established.
Chinese markets are failing, while U.S. markets are still rising at a steady pace.
The U.S. in debt is a good thing for the world market due to the stable economy and currency compared with interests rates from bond exchange. the same cannot be said about china.
so please tell me how anything you said is accurate..China isn't thinking long term at all, theyre trying to fast track something that takes decades to do because of their population.
Michael Hill
This is butthurt: The thread
Jonathan Diaz
vast majority of U.S. debt is domestic debt. so they'll be paying their citizens interest for the next few gen? ok
