Chinese Supercomputer Wrests Title From U.S.

[peaceful]

What I meant in my comment was that the programming is much more complex than the hardware and to harness the true power of the super computer cluster, you need massive parallelism between the synchronous threads and need a totally different thinking than what the traditional programming involves.

who told you there are "synchronous threads"? how about stop pretending to be an expert in this area, shut up your big mouth and listen to Dr. Peaceful?

 

[peaceful]

CPU from Intel, GPU from NVidia - OK the design is chinese. I think chinese are expecting undue credit on the coat-tails of American tech.

your entire IT industry in india is based on US made processor, OS, compiler, standard library, managed language runtime, debugger and other tools.

when was the last time india contributed anything real to the world IT industry?

 

[somebozo]

CPU from Intel, GPU from NVidia - OK the design is chinese. I think chinese are expecting undue credit on the coat-tails of American tech.

Better than some nation who are putting together off the shelf HP blade systems components with infitiniband interconnects and calling it a super computer..

 

[peaceful]

Better than some nations who are putting together off the shelf HP and IBM components with interconnects and calling it a super computer..

you are wrong. india doesn't build supercomputers, they simply buy it from the US. how india can manage to build it own? that is just impossible.

india's fastest computer, built by HP.
EKA | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

india's second fastest, built by IBM.
Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

india's thrid fastest, built by HP.
"PARAM Yuva" Cluster | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

4th and 5th fastest, both built by HP.

now I am waiting indians to tell me HP is an indian company.

I would expect them to come up with own design in another 50 years.

 

[Speeder 2]

now I am waiting indians to tell me HP is an indian company.

... [/B]

errr.. some twats will soon submit the stats that 51% of scientists working for HP are Indian.

I am counting...

 

[peaceful]

errr.. some twats will soon submit the stats that 51% of scientists working for HP are Indian.

I am counting...

they also built ms/google/ibm.

I mean we can sit here and posting online because there is a country called india.

of course, they rely on our power generators to have enough electiricity supply, they rely on our mobile network to their citizens to talk on mobile, they rely on our core routers to build the backbone of their internet, these are just simply tasks left to Chinese.

indians are all working hard to build a better america.

 

[Markus]

This is good achievement.

I am wondering how can it be possibly used and for what.

The article says Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Education will be controlling it.

 

[Developereo]

Year Supercomputer Peak speed(Rmax) Location
1938 Zuse Z1 1 OPS Konrad Zuse, Berlin, Germany
1941 Zuse Z3 20 OPS Konrad Zuse, Berlin, Germany
1943 Colossus 1 5 kOPS Post Office Research Station, Bletchley Park, UK
1944 Colossus 2 (Single Processor) 25 kOPS Post Office Research Station, Bletchley Park, UK
1946 Colossus 2 (Parallel Processor) 50 kOPS Post Office Research Station, Bletchley Park, UK
1946
UPenn ENIAC
(before 1948+ modifications) 5 kOPS Department of War
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA
1954 IBM NORC 67 kOPS Department of Defense
U.S. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA
1956 MIT TX-0 83 kOPS Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
1958 IBM AN/FSQ-7 400 kOPS 25 U.S. Air Force sites across the continental USA and 1 site in Canada (52 computers)
1960 UNIVAC LARC 250 kFLOPS Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
1961 IBM 7030 "Stretch" 1.2 MFLOPS AEC-Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
1964 CDC 6600 3 MFLOPS AEC-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
1969 CDC 7600 36 MFLOPS
1974 CDC STAR-100 100 MFLOPS
1975 Burroughs ILLIAC IV 150 MFLOPS NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA
1976 Cray-1 250 MFLOPS Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA (80+ sold worldwide)
1981 CDC Cyber 205 400 MFLOPS (~40 systems worldwide)
1983 Cray X-MP/4 941 MFLOPS U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Battelle; Boeing
1984 M-13 2.4 GFLOPS Scientific Research Institute of Computer Complexes, Moscow, USSR
1985 Cray-2/8 3.9 GFLOPS DoE-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
1989 ETA10-G/8 10.3 GFLOPS Florida State University, Florida, USA
1990 NEC SX-3/44R 23.2 GFLOPS NEC Fuchu Plant, Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Thinking Machines CM-5/1024 59.7 GFLOPS DoE-Los Alamos National Laboratory; National Security Agency
Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel 124.50 GFLOPS National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
Intel Paragon XP/S 140 143.40 GFLOPS DoE-Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
1994 Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel 170.40 GFLOPS National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Hitachi SR2201/1024 220.4 GFLOPS University of Tokyo, Japan
Hitachi/Tsukuba CP-PACS/2048 368.2 GFLOPS Center for Computational Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
1997 Intel ASCI Red/9152 1.338 TFLOPS DoE-Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
1999 Intel ASCI Red/9632 2.3796 TFLOPS
2000 IBM ASCI White 7.226 TFLOPS DoE-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
2002 NEC Earth Simulator 35.86 TFLOPS Earth Simulator Center, Yokohama, Japan
2004 IBM Blue Gene/L 70.72 TFLOPS DoE/IBM Rochester, Minnesota, USA
2005 136.8 TFLOPS DoE/U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
280.6 TFLOPS
2007 478.2 TFLOPS
2008 IBM Roadrunner 1.026 PFLOPS DoE-Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
1.105 PFLOPS
2009 Cray Jaguar 1.759 PFLOPS DoE-Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

 

[GSK]

india's fastest computer, built by HP.
EKA | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

india's second fastest, built by IBM.
Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

india's thrid fastest, built by HP.
"PARAM Yuva" Cluster | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites

4th and 5th fastest, both built by HP.

If building a supercomputer is so easy, why india, the so-called IT giant, buys it instead of making it by itself? Because it is too easy and india doesn't want to waste its time? Building supercomputer is expensive, but it is definitely more expensive to buy it from foreign countries, especially when it is "easy" to build one.

 

[Hafizzz]

CPU from Intel, GPU from NVidia - OK the design is chinese. I think chinese are expecting undue credit on the coat-tails of American tech.

^^^Sour Grape

 

[Speeder 2]

2002 NEC Earth Simulator 35.86 TFLOPS Earth Simulator Center, Yokohama, Japan
2004 IBM Blue Gene/L 70.72 TFLOPS DoE/IBM Rochester, Minnesota, USA
2005 136.8 TFLOPS DoE/U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
280.6 TFLOPS
2007 478.2 TFLOPS
2008 IBM Roadrunner 1.026 PFLOPS DoE-Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
1.105 PFLOPS
2009 Cray Jaguar 1.759 PFLOPS DoE-Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

The dominance of supercomputing is the core of Amercian high tech. Only Japan managed to challege it once at in the recent years (ie 2002). Hence this feat strikes americans psych ever harder than the biggest dam, longest bridge and fastest train etc.

Since stunning 10 petaflops supercomputing is within reach before 2012, it seems that there's a real race here between the two.

 

[qwerrty]

The dominance of supercomputing is the core of Amercian high tech. Only Japan managed to challege it once at in the recent years (ie 2002). Hence this feat strikes americans psych ever harder than the biggest dam, longest bridge and fastest train etc.

Since stunning 10 petaflops supercomputing is within reach before 2012, it seems that there's a real race here between the two.

japan is developing 10 pflops hpc using homegrown 2.2ghz fujitsu-SPARC64, 8 cores. the system will be online in 2012.

a chinese supercomputer powered by 16 cores godson cpus should be out around that time too..

 

[conworldus]

Supercomputers are very useful in aerospace engineering, bio engineering, material engineering and scientific research that require large amount of data processing. They are also useful in military projects such as missile defence.

 

[lcloo]

For those who said building world's fastest super computer is ego building are just loosers. Wait till China using this toy to crack solutions for military stuff, instead of building actual prototypes, they can refine their R&D with simulations, may be they already have done that?

 

[Chogy]

"Good morning, Dave..."

Sorry, couldn't resist. Supercomputers are cool. AI/sentience (if it ever comes) is even cooler.