THE TEN FASTEST COMPUTER ON THE PLANET
A CHINESE SUPER COMPUTER KNOWN AS TIANHE-2 WAS NAMED TODAY THE WORLD FASTEST MACHINE ,NEARLY DOUBLING THE THE PREVIOUS SPEED RECORD WITH IT PERFOMANCE OF 33.8 PETAFLOPS.TIANHE-2 ASCENDENCE WAS REVEALED IN ADVANCE AND WAS MADE OFFICIAL TODAY WITH THE RELEASE OF THE NEW TOP 500 COMPUTER LIST.
TIANHE-2 WAS DEVELOPED AT CHINA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY AND WILL BE DEPLOYED IN THE COUNTRY NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUITING CENTRE BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR.THE SURPRISE APEARANCE OF TIANHE-2 TWO YEARS AHEAD OF THE EXPECTED DEPLOYMENT MARKS CHINA FIRST RETURN TO THE NO.1 POSITION SIENCE NOVEMBER 2010 ,WHEN TIANHE-1 WAS THE TOP SYSTEM THE TOP 500 ANOUNCEMENT STATES .TIANHE-2 HAS 16,000 NODES,EACH WITH TWO INTEL XEOM LVY BIDGE PROCEESORS AND THREE XEON PHI PROCESSOR FOR A COMBINED TOTAL OF 120,000 COMPUTING CORES.
THE COMBINED PERFOMANCE OF THE 500 SYESTEMS ON THE LIST IS223 PETAFLOPS UP FROM 162 PETAFLIPS ON THE PREVIOUS LIST RELEASE SIX MONTHS AGO.A PETAFLOPS REPRESENT ONE QUADRILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATION PER SECOND , OR A MILLION BILLION.
26 SYSTEMS LIST AT LEAST A PETAFLOP. ACCOUNTED FOR FOUR OF THE TOIP10WHILE INTEL PROVIDED THE PROCESSOR FOR 80.4 PERCENT OF ALL TOP 500 SYSTEMS 39 SYSTEMS USE NIVIDIA GPU TO SPEED UP CALCULATION AND ANOTHER 15 USE OTHER CALCULATION CO-PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS ADM.
252 OF THE 500ARE INSTALLED IN THE USA,112 ARE IN EUROPE,66 ARE IN CHINA AND 30 IN JPAN .THE SLOWEST COMPUTER IN THE LIST HIT 96.6 TERAFLOPS COMPARED TO 76.5 TERAFLOPS FOPR THE LOWEST COMPUTER ON NOVEMBER.,LIST
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A CHINESE SUPER COMPUTER KNOWN AS TIANHE-2 WAS NAMED TODAY THE WORLD FASTEST MACHINE ,NEARLY DOUBLING THE THE PREVIOUS SPEED RECORD WITH IT PERFOMANCE OF 33.8 PETAFLOPS.TIANHE-2 ASCENDENCE WAS REVEALED IN ADVANCE AND WAS MADE OFFICIAL TODAY WITH THE RELEASE OF THE NEW TOP 500 COMPUTER LIST.
TIANHE-2 WAS DEVELOPED AT CHINA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY AND WILL BE DEPLOYED IN THE COUNTRY NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUITING CENTRE BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR.THE SURPRISE APEARANCE OF TIANHE-2 TWO YEARS AHEAD OF THE EXPECTED DEPLOYMENT MARKS CHINA FIRST RETURN TO THE NO.1 POSITION SIENCE NOVEMBER 2010 ,WHEN TIANHE-1 WAS THE TOP SYSTEM THE TOP 500 ANOUNCEMENT STATES .TIANHE-2 HAS 16,000 NODES,EACH WITH TWO INTEL XEOM LVY BIDGE PROCEESORS AND THREE XEON PHI PROCESSOR FOR A COMBINED TOTAL OF 120,000 COMPUTING CORES.
THE COMBINED PERFOMANCE OF THE 500 SYESTEMS ON THE LIST IS223 PETAFLOPS UP FROM 162 PETAFLIPS ON THE PREVIOUS LIST RELEASE SIX MONTHS AGO.A PETAFLOPS REPRESENT ONE QUADRILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATION PER SECOND , OR A MILLION BILLION.
26 SYSTEMS LIST AT LEAST A PETAFLOP. ACCOUNTED FOR FOUR OF THE TOIP10WHILE INTEL PROVIDED THE PROCESSOR FOR 80.4 PERCENT OF ALL TOP 500 SYSTEMS 39 SYSTEMS USE NIVIDIA GPU TO SPEED UP CALCULATION AND ANOTHER 15 USE OTHER CALCULATION CO-PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS ADM.
252 OF THE 500ARE INSTALLED IN THE USA,112 ARE IN EUROPE,66 ARE IN CHINA AND 30 IN JPAN .THE SLOWEST COMPUTER IN THE LIST HIT 96.6 TERAFLOPS COMPARED TO 76.5 TERAFLOPS FOPR THE LOWEST COMPUTER ON NOVEMBER.,LIST
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