China's "Milky Way One" super computer rank fifth in world

[grey boy 2]

China's "Milky Way One" supercomputer ranked fifth in world - People's Daily Online:41, November 18, 2009

According to the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers released Nov. 18, 2009, the "Milky Way One" ranked fifth in the world and first in Asia. "Milky Way One" is China's first teraflop supercomputer cluster system, developed by the Computer Science Department of National Defense University.

A Chinese supercomputer in the top ranks indicates that China already has high-performance calculation technology and becomes the second country with the ability to develop a teraflop supercomputer system.

The International Top500 organization releases world's supercomputers list twice annually based on Linpack testing. This organization aims to promote exchange and cooperation in supercomputing fields and spread its application.

"Milky Way One" is China's first teraflop supercomputer system, with a peak speed of 1,206 trillion functions per second. Linpack testing reaches 563.1 trillion functions per second.

Advanced supercomputing technology is a symbol of technological competitiveness especially in the information age. Among the top ten listed, there are 9 American produced supercomputers and the "Milky Way One". Experts believe that "Milky Way One" is a way of showing the uprising status of China's advanced computer technology and it will provide solutions for critical economic and technological issues.

As the core processor of National Supercomputing Tianjin Center, "Milky Way One" is expected to provide technological support for petroleum exploration data processing, bio-medical research, aviation equipment development, resources exploration, satellite remote sensing data processing, financial engineering, weather forecasting, climate prediction, marine data analysis, earthquake prevention, new material development and other important areas.

By People's Daily Online

 

[paritosh]

Grey boy2....does the milky way have a chinese processor?
The chinese were developing one...but they weren't quite successful at that...has it been achieved?

 

[Srinivas]

congrats china regarding the development of super computer. We indians are also in the race with 4th fastest super computer "Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system".

http://theos.in/technology/indias-fastest-supercomputer/

 

[grey boy 2]

Grey boy2....does the milky way have a chinese processor?
The chinese were developing one...but they weren't quite successful at that...has it been achieved?

Buddy, i am no computer guy, i don't know this will able to answer your question.

China Successfully Developed “Milky Way One” Supercomputer
October 30th, 2009 by Sue Hardware, NEWS

China’s National University of Defense Technology has lately unveiled the “Milky Way One” supercomputer, which is capable of one quadrillion calculations per second at its peak speed, which means China has become the world’s second nation after the United States can develop a petaflop supercomputer.

Radeon HD 4870 X2 (1GB of GDDR5 memory, 575MHz GPU clock)

Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs (3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5540s and 3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5450) and 5120 AMD GPUs (2560 Radeon HD 4870 X2s), Milky Way One’s peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark.

The 155-ton system, with 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up on an area of about 1,000 square meters, which cost at least 600 million yuan (88.24 million U.S. dollars) is expected to process seismic data for oil exploration, conduct bio-medical computing and help design aerospace vehicles, according to NUDT president Zhang Yulin.

A single-day task for Milky Way One might take a mainstream dual-core personal computer 160 years to complete, working non-top - if it can last that long.

Zhang said the technical data of Milky Way One had been submitted to the world Top 500 list, compiled by the University of Mannheim, in Germany, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee in the United States.

The next Top 500 supercomputer list will be released in November.
China Successfully Developed “Milky Way One” Supercomputer - Expreview.com
Pictures courtesy of Xinhuanet

 

[Adios Amigo]

every now and then you hear such news about china developing or have developed something, which makes your belief grow further strong about china as a rising super power. however to me the better aspect of rapid chinese growth is that, its not confined to a few sectors but rather in every sector, and such eminese diversification is the core stable and sustanable growth.
keep the good work up and good luck for future
adios

 

[grey boy 2]

congrats china regarding the development of super computer. We indians are also in the race with 4th fastest super computer "Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system".

India unleashes 4th fastest super computer

Hey, why you always like to get on my nerve ? HaHa, just kidding

buddy, Anyway, i am glad both India and China are doing good in

super-computer, but still a long way to catch up to the top though.

 

[Adios Amigo]

Hey, why you always like to get on my nerve ? HaHa, just kidding

he might want to take revange of ISRO2. you know wat you did to him

 

[Srinivas]

he might want to take revange of ISRO2. you know wat you did to him

very funny dude it is not like that

i just want to tell u guys that india is also in the race

 

[Srinivas]

buddy, Anyway, i am glad both India and China are doing good in

super-computer, but still a long way to catch up to the top though.

very true

 

[paritosh]

Buddy, i am no computer guy, i don't know this will able to answer your question.

China Successfully Developed “Milky Way One” Supercomputer
October 30th, 2009 by Sue Hardware, NEWS

China’s National University of Defense Technology has lately unveiled the “Milky Way One” supercomputer, which is capable of one quadrillion calculations per second at its peak speed, which means China has become the world’s second nation after the United States can develop a petaflop supercomputer.

Radeon HD 4870 X2 (1GB of GDDR5 memory, 575MHz GPU clock)

Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs (3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5540s and 3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5450) and 5120 AMD GPUs (2560 Radeon HD 4870 X2s), Milky Way One’s peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark.

The 155-ton system, with 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up on an area of about 1,000 square meters, which cost at least 600 million yuan (88.24 million U.S. dollars) is expected to process seismic data for oil exploration, conduct bio-medical computing and help design aerospace vehicles, according to NUDT president Zhang Yulin.

A single-day task for Milky Way One might take a mainstream dual-core personal computer 160 years to complete, working non-top - if it can last that long.

Zhang said the technical data of Milky Way One had been submitted to the world Top 500 list, compiled by the University of Mannheim, in Germany, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee in the United States.

The next Top 500 supercomputer list will be released in November.
China Successfully Developed “Milky Way One” Supercomputer - Expreview.com
Pictures courtesy of Xinhuanet

grey boy 2...a year back i had a big argument about the Indian supercomputer capabilities with some Pakistani memebers on this forum....and they called (our fourth fastest supercomputer in the world that time) a sham as it was based on the Intel processors...as is the milky way...it's funny that no matter how hard I tried to explain to them that the supercomputer is a supercomputer because of the architecture that it employs which is not easy to forge by any means...they'd still call our supercomputer American....and now Pakistanis laud the Chinese supercomputer...
great going by China...we have teraflop capability and are working on pentaflop...

 

[paritosh]

very funny dude it is not like that

i just want to tell u guys that india is also in the race

we are very much in the race bro...we have one of the highest number of supercomputers active in the world...

 

[grey boy 2]

every now and then you hear such news about china developing or have developed something, which makes your belief grow further strong about china as a rising super power. however to me the better aspect of rapid chinese growth is that, its not confined to a few sectors but rather in every sector, and such eminese diversification is the core stable and sustanable growth.
keep the good work up and good luck for future
adios

Thanks brother for your kind encouragement,

Every nation goes through up and down, we been going through hell

for century, now we started to get back on our feet, same case for

Pakistan, things will sure get better as time goes by, you just need to

believe in youself. An old Chinese wisdom: If others look down upon

you, thats fine, but if you look down upon yourself, you finish.

 

[bigmoneymaker]

congrats china regarding the development of super computer. We indians are also in the race with 4th fastest super computer "Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system".

India unleashes 4th fastest super computer

that the forth placing is at 2007 november, indiia did it. but now?? what is the rank of india supercomputer ranks now in 2009 november?? every two years top500 releases results...

 

[grey boy 2]

congrats china regarding the development of super computer. We indians are also in the race with 4th fastest super computer "Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system".

India unleashes 4th fastest super computer

Hey buddy, just for argument sake, we rank (1) in Asia !

so how India rank (4) in the world and China rank (5), thats dosn't

make sense ?

 

[bigmoneymaker]

Hey buddy, just for argument sake, we rank (1) in Asia !

so how India rank (4) in the world and China rank (5), thats dosn't

make sense ?

that news is 2007november, now will anyone post the real top 10 ranking, please??