Thread: China completed the world's fourth fastest supercomputer

With China now presents its fastest supercomputer ever, it is not the fastest in the galaxy, although the name actually means Tianhe Milky Way. Supercomputer can achieve a performance of over 1.2 petaflop and a Line Pack performance of 563.1 teraflops had to have qualified in fourth place on the world's fastest supercomputers, in the latest TOP500 list was finalized in June. Computer system weighs 155 tones and is housed in no less than 103 refrigerator-sized cabinets in a room of over 1000 square meters.

To compare performance with our normal desktop PCs think the National University of Defense Technology, which built the system, a data Tianhe capable of one day would take 160 years for a typical PC to cope.

The performance achieved by thousands of CPUs and GPUs with Intel accounted for Xeon processors, while Intel provided assistance with graphics chips. Among other things, you should find a couple of thousand Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics card that will be one of the most important pieces of the puzzle in system performance. While it helps to create a relatively efficient way power systems.

When the system is fully installed, is expected NUDT upgrade supercomputer with thousands of China-made CPUs to be able to squeeze Linpack performance of over 800 teraflops.