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

[RPK]

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...

TOP500 List - November 2009 (1-100) | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

 

[Merilion]

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?

I'm not too sure but I think it's still based on Intel processor.

China's own processor 4 core Godson-3A successfully loaded with Linux Kernel recently.

 

[gpit]

TOP500 List - November 2009 (1-100) | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

I'm a little bit surprised that Japan is not very strong in super computing.

Any conceivable reasons?

 

[New Vision]

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 ?

So when did the Chinese supercomputer come into being , was it this year or earlier. What I gather from the post is that it came in this year. If so, has this years top 500 rating already been declared. Because it is by this that we will get the exact rating of all computers.

 

[New Vision]

So when did the Chinese supercomputer come into being , was it this year or earlier. What I gather from the post is that it came in this year. If so, has this years top 500 rating already been declared. Because it is by this that we will get the exact rating of all computers.

Okay, so I the top 500 is out and it is China at no 5

 

[Guest]

1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States Jaguar - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz
Cray Inc.
2 DOE/NNSA/LANL
United States Roadrunner - BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
IBM
3 National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee
United States Kraken XT5 - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz
Cray Inc.
4 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
Germany JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution
IBM
5 National SuperComputer Center in Tianjin/NUDT
China Tianhe-1 - NUDT TH-1 Cluster, Xeon E5540/E5450, ATI Radeon HD 4870 2, Infiniband
NUDT
6 NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
United States Pleiades - SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon QC 3.0 GHz/Nehalem EP 2.93 Ghz
SGI
7 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM
8 Argonne National Laboratory
United States Blue Gene/P Solution
IBM
9 Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas
United States Ranger - SunBlade x6420, Opteron QC 2.3 Ghz, Infiniband
Sun Microsystems
10 Sandia National Laboratories / National Renewable Energy Laboratory
United States Red Sky - Sun Blade x6275, Xeon X55xx 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband
Sun Microsystems

http://www.top500.org/lists/2009/11

 

[Guest]

I'm a little bit surprised that Japan is not very strong in super computing.

Any conceivable reasons?

japan is not felt behind if you look into another table.

Countries Count Share % Rmax Sum (GF) Rpeak Sum (GF) Processor Sum
Australia 1 0.20 % 21906 40960 4096
Austria 8 1.60 % 219920 266644 23222
Belgium 1 0.20 % 22731 42485 3984
Brazil 1 0.20 % 64630 72397 6464
Bulgaria 1 0.20 % 23862 27850 8192
Canada 9 1.80 % 439783 661945 60340
China 21 4.20 % 1379877 2536415 210640
Finland 2 0.40 % 103047 151547 14584
France 26 5.20 % 1214250 1827024 220928
Germany 27 5.40 % 2288766 2933697 472332
Hong Kong 1 0.20 % 32325 56672 5600
India 3 0.60 % 199257 279702 23416
Ireland 1 0.20 % 25110 28672 2560
Israel 2 0.40 % 49340 148374 13272
Italy 6 1.20 % 200689 272840 21968
Japan 16 3.20 % 994211 1308592 125320
Korea, South 2 0.40 % 298170 338159 27768
Malaysia 1 0.20 % 20442 38224 4096
Netherlands 3 0.60 % 110653 155970 21336
New Zealand 8 1.60 % 233222 422650 40688
Norway 2 0.40 % 72454 110984 11182
Poland 3 0.60 % 81392 130531 13416
Russia 8 1.60 % 646246 822672 77992
Saudia Arabia 4 0.80 % 310865 370283 77920
Singapore 1 0.20 % 23482 28128 2400
Slovenia 1 0.20 % 36752 49152 4096
South Africa 1 0.20 % 25440 30861 2624
Spain 6 1.20 % 205897 310012 32992
Sweden 7 1.40 % 300733 423616 39500
Switzerland 5 1.00 % 346885 417933 52360
United Kingdom 45 9.00 % 1569089 2457528 222300
United States 277 55.40 % 16416075 24187603 2817039

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

Awesome machine . I am going through a case study of IBM Blue Geny .. truely can be termed as best among many supercomputers in terms of its scalable architecture .
Anyways nice to hear that Chinese are also getting up into this . Thanks alot grey boy 2 for sharing this news . Can you please provide its architectural details in depth .

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

What is its global OS apart from Linux ....?

 

[lockh33d]

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, I'm sorry but that's another Indian propaganda post from the miserable local media. Here's the official list:

TOP500 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No India in it I'm sorry!

 

[lockh33d]

What is its global OS apart from Linux ....?

Well, I believe there are only 3 to begin with isn't there? I believe either, Windows, OSX(Shrug), and Linux

 

[Speeder]

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...

I think you are mistaken, paritosh.

I am not a computer expert, but I can tell you the following:


1. Currently there are only 2 countries in the world having Petaflop capability, to make its own Petaflop supercomputer. Sorry, none of them is India.


2. The place where a computer is located doesn't count.

e.g. Current # 4 fastest is located in Germany. However, it is not Made-In-Germany,but made-in-USA, with its vendor being IBM. Hence Germany doesn't count in petaflop capability. Otherwise, since #5 China can produce Petaflop, #4 germany surely could count, but that isn't the case.

Get it?

3. The key of supercomputer is the what platform it uses (vendor), and who is the hardware maker, which decides its interllectural ownership.

India's "Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system"as you mentioned might be rated as #4 sometime in the recent past. However, it only showd that the #4 fastest supercomputer at the time was located in India, nothing less and nothing more. Since its platform (vendor) was HP, and it was Made-In-USA, it intellectural ownershop belongs to USA, not India.

Even though it might have used some Indian techologies in routing, etc, but those are not the core tech of supercomputer, thereby not sufficient enough to claim the ownership of it. The HP supercomputer you have is made-in-USA, only installed in India. It's bit like you bought a Ferrari and made some changes on it at home, but that doesn't mean you produce Ferrari.

On the contrary, the current #5 China's TH-1 is based on Chinese indigenous NUDT platform (vendor), and Made-In-China, which justify its ownership.


I guess Indian media may have misled your domestic audience on this.

 

[redhat]

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.


Were these invented in china?

 

[TruthSeeker]

Well, at least it is clear that the USA still leads in computing power, both in single computer speed and in aggregate national computing capacity. Now, if only we can figure out how to make the Chinese float the yuan .......

 

[bandmaster]

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