Top Chinese Supercomputers Point to Aggressive HPC Strategy

StephenW

Top Chinese Supercomputers Point to Aggressive HPC Strategy
HPC Wire (04/26/11) Michael Feldman

Liang Yuan, a researcher at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently discussed China's aggressive adoption of graphics processing unit (GPU) technology, which propelled China's recent rise to the number one spot of the Top500 supercomputing list.  In 2002 China had just five systems in the Top500.  Since then China has developed 39 computers that rank in the Top500 and five in the top 100, including the number one and number three-ranked supercomputers in the world.  China's top three systems are all heterogeneous central-processing unit (CPU)-GPU machines, based on Intel Xeon and NVIDIA Tesla processors.  Overall, 51 percent of Chinese systems are derived from U.S.-based vendors, while the remaining 49 percent are built by Chinese manufacturers.  Two of China's largest machines, the Tianhe-1A and the Mole 8.5 cluster, were constructed by government organizations.  China now is working to deploy the domestically designed Godson CPU technology on supercomputers.  Yuan says China plans to deploy a 10-petaflop Linpack system by 2013 and a 100-petaflop system two years later.

hbv30year

No doubt china has made huge progress in IT technology. Computer changes our life. In terms of hardware, china follows the tide of the world well, for instances, high-speed train, skyscrapers, nuclear power... I am waiting for the software to catch up, it means the law, education, human rights, environment...

StephenW

hbv30year 发表于 2011-4-30 08:46
No doubt china has made huge progress in IT technology. Computer changes our life. In terms of hardw ...

totally agree.