China has unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, at a high-performance computing conference in Beijing. The Tianhe-1A has a Linpack benchmark performance of 2.507 petaflops, according to Nvidia, whose Tesla M2050 graphics processing units were used in the supercomputer. Linpack is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on computers written to test supercomputer speeds in the 1970s. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory claimed the record in November 2009 with its Cray XT supercomputer, nicknamed “Jaguar.”
These type of activity shows China is most powerful in Computer H/W. That almost 80% of computer hardware products are made by China is great news for the Chinese people.
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Chinese Supercomputer Blazes Path to Glory
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 28, 2010 12:19 PMChina has unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, at a high-performance computing conference in Beijing. The Tianhe-1A has a Linpack benchmark performance of 2.507 petaflops, according to Nvidia, whose Tesla M2050 graphics processing units were used in the supercomputer. Linpack is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on computers written to test supercomputer speeds in the 1970s. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory claimed the record in November 2009 with its Cray XT supercomputer, nicknamed “Jaguar.”
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