China develops very fast super computer

[thinkingcap81]

China develops fastest super computer

China has developed a super computer that runs at more than one quadrillion (one thousand million million) calculations per second, making it the fastest one in the country, experts have said.

The super computer named "Xingyun", has been developed in Tianjin, and works at double the speed of "Tianhe-1", the previous fastest machine in China.

The Tianhe-1 was developed by the National University of Defence Technology in October 2009, Li Jun, president of the Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd., was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

"Its peak performance reaches nearly three quadrillion calculations per second, three times the peak speed of Tianhe-1," Li said.

Experts say one second of its work may take a whole day for a dual-core personal computer.

"Xingyun" is the server of "Dawning 6000", jointly developed by the company, Chinese Academy of Sciences Calculation Institution, and the South China Supercomputing Centre, for cloud computing and DNA sequencing purposes, officials said.

By the end of 2010, "Dawning 6000" will be delivered to the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen in Guangdong province for use in information services in southern China, including Hong Kong and Macao.

Beijing-based Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd. was founded in 1995 and is the country's leading company in the field of high-performance computers.

 

[Chanakyaa]

Congratulations China.
Great achievement.

 

[below_freezing]

hopefully we will never be too proud. there is no upper limit to achievement. great accomplishment, lets keep it up.

 

[aimarraul]

hopefully we will never be too proud.

there is no reason to stop


1 Jaguar - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz
2 Roadrunner - BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
3 Kraken XT5 - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz
4 JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution
5 Tianhe-1 - NUDT TH-1 Cluster, Xeon E5540/E5450, ATI Radeon HD 4870, Infiniband


Countries share for 11/2009 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

 

[Chanakyaa]

A long journey begins with a 'single' step.
You got to appreciate the accelarated growth by china in this field.

Moreover, China like India is NOT US ... We spend as per our needs not to just make records or remain on top.

So my point is the day china needs the capability of cray they will get the same.

After all need is the mother of invention.

 

[Jazzbot]

great achievement..

 

[SpArK]

Good Achievement and we will surely see more of it coming from China.

 

[mehru]

Congratulations to China.

 

[SomeGuy]

there is no reason to stop


1 Jaguar - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz
2 Roadrunner - BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
3 Kraken XT5 - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz
4 JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution
5 Tianhe-1 - NUDT TH-1 Cluster, Xeon E5540/E5450, ATI Radeon HD 4870, Infiniband


Countries share for 11/2009 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

A long journey begins with a 'single' step.
You got to appreciate the accelarated growth by china in this field.

Moreover, China like India is NOT US ... We spend as per our needs not to just make records or remain on top.

So my point is the day china needs the capability of cray they will get the same.

After all need is the mother of invention.

Excellent news.

According to the BBC, this new machine is now the second fastest in the world, second only to the Cray - Jaguar itself.

Moreover, the actual theoretical top speed is actually faster than the Cray - Jaguar.

BBC News - China aims to be become supercomputer superpower

Its Nebulae machine at the National Super Computer Center in Shenzhen, was ranked second on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list.

Its fastest has a top speed of 1.20 petaflops, more than double the speed of its previous top supercomputer. However, it has a theoretical top speed of nearly 3 petaflops, which would make it the fastest in the world.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

To me this means very little.


What is more interesting however is they have become the 2nd nation in the world to develop a PETA-FLOP SUPERCOMPUTER based on domestic indigenous designs (Loongson 3F - 64-bit quad-core). I mentioned earlier as have others.

 

[xuxu1457]

China?s new Nebulae Supercomputer is No. 2, right on the Tail of ORNL?s Jaguar in Newest TOP500 List of Fastest Supercomputers | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites
China’s new Nebulae Supercomputer is No. 2, right on the Tail of ORNL’s Jaguar in Newest TOP500 List of Fastest Supercomputers

Fri, 2010-05-28 00:31
HAMBURG, Germany—China’s ambition to enter the supercomputing arena have become obvious with a system called Nebulae, build from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs. Nebulae is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 PFlop/s. With a Linpack performance of 1.271 PFlop/s it holds the No. 2 spot on the 35th edition of the closely watched TOP500 list of supercomputers.

The newest version of the TOP500 list, which is issued twice yearly, will be formally presented on Monday, June 31, at the ISC’10 Conference to be held at the CCH-Congress Center in Hamburg, Germany.

Jaguar, which is located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, held on to the No. 1 spot on the TOP500 with its record 1.75 petaflop/s performance speed running the Linpack benchmark. Jaguar has a theoretical peak capability of 2.3 petaflop/s and nearly a quarter of a million cores. One petaflop/s refers to one quadrillion calculations per second.

Nebulae, which is located at the newly build National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, China, achieved 1.271 PFlop/s running the Linpack benchmark, which puts it in the No. 2 spot on the TOP500 behind Jaguar. In part due to its NVidia GPU accelerators, Nebulae reports an impressive theoretical peak capability of almost 3 petaflop/s – the highest ever on the TOP500.

Roadrunner, which was the first ever petaflop/s system at Los Alamos in June 2008, dropped to No. 3 with a performance of 1.04 petaflop/s.

At No. 5 is the most powerful system in Europe -- an IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer located at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) in Germany. It achieved 825.5 teraflop/s on the Linpack benchmark.

Tianhe-1 (meaning River in Sky), installed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin, China is a second Chinese system in the TOP10 and ranked at No. 7. Tianhe-1 and Nebulae are both hybrid designs with Intel Xeon processors and AMD or NVidia GPUs used as accelerators. Each node of Tianhe-1 consists of two AMD GPUs attached to two Intel Xeon processors.

The performance of Nebulae and Tianhe-1 were enough to catapult China in the No.2 spot of installed performance (9.2 percent) ahead of various European countries, but still clearly behind the U.S. (55.4 percent).

Here are some other highlights from the latest list showing changes from the November 2009 edition:

The entry level to the list moved up to the 24.7 teraflop/s mark on the Linpack benchmark from 20 teraflop/s six months ago. The last system on the newest list would have been listed at position 357 in the previous TOP500 just six months ago. This replacement rate was far below average. This might reflect the impact of the recession and purchase delays due to anticipation of new products with six or more core processor technologies replacing current quad-core based systems.
Quad-core processor based systems have saturated the TOP500 with now 425 systems using them. However, processor with six or more cores per processor can already be found in 25 systems.
A total of 408 systems (81.6 percent) are now using Intel processors. This is slightly up from six months ago (402 systems, 80.4 percent). Intel continues to provide the processors for the largest share of TOP500 systems. The AMD Opteron is the second most common used processor family with 47 systems (9.4 percent), up from 42. They are followed by the IBM Power processors with 42 systems (8.4 percent), down from 52.
IBM and Hewlett-Packard continue to sell the bulk of systems at all performance levels of the TOP500. HP lost its narrow lead in systems to IBM and has now 185 systems (37 percent) compared to IBM with 198 systems (39.8 percent). HP had 210 systems (42 percent) six months ago, compared to IBM with 186 systems (37.2 percent). In the system category, Cray, SGI, and Dell follow with 4.2 percent, 3.4 percent and 3.4 percent respectively.
IBM remains the clear leader in the TOP500 list in performance with 33.6 percent of installed total performance (down from 35.1 percent), compared to HP with 20.4 percent (down from 23 percent). In the performance category, the manufacturers with more than 5 percent are: Cray (14.8 percent of performance) and SGI (6.6 percent), each of which benefits from large systems in the TOP10.
The U.S. is clearly the leading consumer of HPC systems with 282 of the 500 systems (up from 277). The European share (144 systems – down from 152) is still substantially larger then the Asian share (57 systems – up from 51). In Europe, UK remains the No. 1 with 38 systems (45 six months ago). France passed Germany and has now 29 (up from 26). Germany is still now the No. 3 spot with 24 systems (27 six months ago). Dominant countries in Asia are China with 24 systems (up from 21), Japan with 18 systems (up from 16), and India with 5 systems (up from 3).
The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. For more information, visit Home | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites.

 

[SomeGuy]

BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers

The linked page shows an interesting graphic - it breaks down the top500 list into countries and computing power.

America has the largest computing power of the top500
China has the second largest computing power and comes ahead of traditional European powers like UK, Germany, France and Russia and other industrialised nations like Japan and South Korea.

 

[xuxu1457]

The list:
BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers

 

[below_freezing]

To me this means very little.


What is more interesting however is they have become the 2nd nation in the world to develop a PETA-FLOP SUPERCOMPUTER based on domestic indigenous designs (Loongson 3F - 64-bit quad-core). I mentioned earlier as have others.

being able to have a high speed computer is critical for biomedical and chemical applications like:

high-speed throughput screening (for 1 cell with 1 mutation out of billions)
drug finding
molecular modeling
DNA sequencing
protein folding predictions
world climate models

and also things like shock wave, nuclear explosion, etc. having a supercomputer is a huge deal.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

being able to have a high speed computer is critical for biomedical and chemical applications like:

high-speed throughput screening (for 1 cell with 1 mutation out of billions)
drug finding
molecular modeling
DNA sequencing
protein folding predictions
world climate models

and also things like shock wave, nuclear explosion, etc. having a supercomputer is a huge deal.

Yes, of course I understand this. My comment was that it is not a big accomplishment to make it into the 2nd fastest (theoretically 1st fastest) supercomputer -- as China had this capability for years already. My emphasis was that it's better to develop in house knowledge to build AND design the entire machine indigenously.

By the way, this is part of my specialty.