Shanghai tops global school tests, UK 'stagnates'

[Viet]

Okay
We are waiting.

we are closer than you think. I just found some more graphs. Check our for Vietnam.

Percentage of students scoring at level 2 or higher in Math
(Data from OECD - PISA 2012)

Percentage of students scoring at level 2 or higher in Science
(Data from OECD - PISA 2012)

Percentage of students scoring at level 2 or higher in Reading
(Data from OECD - PISA 2012)

 

[cirr]

China's supercomputing whizzkids: Busting out a 8.224 teraflops cluster? Guilty as charged

LINPACK win wasn't a record – but commodity iron a bargain at $4.99 per GFLOP

By Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting

12th December 2013

China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) grabbed the LINPACK award at the recently concluded SC13 Student Cluster Competition. NUDT topped all other competitors with a score of 8.224 TFLOP/s.

NUDT’s LINPACK win isn’t a surprise to competition observers, the team hails from the home of Tianhe-1 and Tianhe-2, meaning they know their way around their GPU-heavy cluster. They also have a bit of a reputation as LINPACK specialists, having won this award in previous competitions.

Team Germany, FAU (Friedrich-Alexander University) grabbed second place with a score of 7.413 TFLOP/s. The Germans (or Team Kraut, as they dubbed themselves) had an equal number of Kepler GPUs as NUDT (8 total), but had only half the memory, at 512GB, as the victorious Chinese.

The reconstituted all-female Team Venus 2.0 nailed down a third place finish in LINPACK with a score of 7.225 TFLOP/s. This is a vast increase (more than 3x) vs. their score and middle of the pack finish at SC12 last year. Nice work, that.

No New LINPACK Record at SC13

For the first time since 2009, we didn’t see a new student LINPACK record set during the competition. In fact, we took a couple of baby steps backwards.

The winning NUDT SC13 score of 8.224 TF would have netted them a third place finish at June’s ISC’13 cluster challenge, behind Huazhong U’s 8.455 TFLOP/s and the 8.321 TF/s turned in by Edinburgh University.

The major reason why we didn’t see a new LINPACK high water mark are mostly due to teams using the same accelerators (GPUs in this case) as they used in the ISC’13 competition several months back. GPUs have been the main driver behind the explosive increase in cluster competition LINPACK scores since 2010.

China's supercomputing whizzkids: Busting out a 8.224 teraflops cluster? Guilty as charged • The Register

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Why is this threat still alive?

So many people can get butthurt by this stupid PISA test, i don't even give a fck about it, just let it go!

 

[EastSea]

Actually it's not the Viet that's talking. It's more like "Agent Orange and Napalm" talking here.
You have to pity those poor souls.

Sinos drinking melamine and masturbation themselves, kid.

 

[StarCraft_ZT]

Why is this threat still alive?

So many people can get butthurt by this stupid PISA test, i don't even give a fck about it, just let it go!

Yea...I never heard of it until I came to PDF

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Yea...I never heard of it until I came to PDF

This proves so many Internet trolls only have a fragile mind.

With China's new successes in the coming years, i bet many of these trolls will have their head exploded.

 

[rott]

we are closer than you think. I just found some more graphs. Check our for Vietnam.

You must thank us over a million times for the genes we have provided to you all.

 

[EastSea]

You must thank us over a million times for the genes we have provided to you all.

You have to thank hundered million genes provided by Nomads, Mongolian, Manchiran, Altaic, japans Brittain etc.

 

[rott]

You have to thank hundered million genes provided by Nomads, Mongolian, Manchiran, Altaic, japans Brittain etc.

How about you thank Chinese first?

 

[EastSea]

How about you thank Chinese first?

You have thank to Nomads, Altaic first. Japanese are alway smarter than you.

We kicked your *** ran back many time. You got wet dreams, kid.

 

[INDIC]

LOL, typical indian sour grapes. Every country selects the strongest state/city as the official participant for PISA. India chose the top two states with highest Gross Enrollment (GER) in primary and upper primary, yet Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh came in second last in previous PISA. The weaker Indian states with lesser enrollment rate would have fare even worse.

Rural chinese provinces actually volunteered for PISA and they scored above PISA average.

Once again, I am repeating the same thing how Chinese scores high in PISA test. @JayAtl @Audio @Jade @Star Wars You will love to read this.

PISA's China Problem | Brookings Institution

According to the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Stanford University, high school attendance rates are as low as 40 percent in poor, rural areas of China. The dropout rate runs as high as 25 percent in middle schools. The schools are often run down and poorly staffed. Classrooms packed with 130 students have been reported. Children must often work to help provide for their families, and secondary school fees (high schools charge tuition) are too high for many parents. It is clear that the student sample sitting for PISA is not representative of rural Chinese youth as a whole, but hails only from families strongly committed to formal education and able to afford the tuitions and fees of high school.

And, once again, do not forget that the provinces with PISA test scores were not selected randomly; they were those approved for participation by the Chinese government. All of these elements undermine the representativeness of the PISA scores.

According to deputy principal and director of the International Division at Peking University High School, Jiang Xuegin:

Shanghai parents will annually spend on average of 6,000 yuan on English and math tutors and 9,600 yuan on weekend activities, such as tennis and piano. During the high school years, annual tutoring costs shoot up to 30,000 yuan and the cost of activities doubles to 19,200 yuan.

The typical Chinese worker cannot afford such vast sums. Consider this: at the high school level, the total expenses for tutoring and weekend activities in Shanghai exceed what the average Chinese worker makes in a year (about 42,000 yuan or $6,861).

 

[rott]

You have thank to Nomads, Altaic first. Japanese are alway smarter than you.
We kicked your *** ran back many time. You got wet dreams, kid.

Is that how we could score higher than them? Oh, are you sure it's not "Agent Orange and Napalm" talking here?
Would you like me to remind you with some pictures?

BTW, do you remember the SCORCH EARTH POLICY and the 1988?

 

[EastSea]

Is that how we could score higher than them? Oh, are you sure it's not "Agent Orange and Napalm" talking here?
Would you like me to remind you with some pictures?

BTW, do you remember the SCORCH EARTH POLICY and the 1988?

You talking with mentality of person is poisoned by melamine. If you past the photo, I will post in the same manner.

What is policy 1988 ? When big boy is mad, he can not know what is right, what is illegal.

 

[Kolaps]

Once again, I am repeating the same thing how Chinese scores high in PISA test. @JayAtl @Audio @Jade @Star Wars You will love to read this.

PISA's China Problem | Brookings Institution

Someone posted the PISA score from Zhejiang province above.

80% are from the rural area, elite schools excluded.

It scored higher than Shanghai.

 

[shuttler]

China's supercomputing whizzkids: Busting out a 8.224 teraflops cluster? Guilty as charged

LINPACK win wasn't a record – but commodity iron a bargain at $4.99 per GFLOP

By Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting

12th December 2013

China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) grabbed the LINPACK award at the recently concluded SC13 Student Cluster Competition. NUDT topped all other competitors with a score of 8.224 TFLOP/s.

NUDT’s LINPACK win isn’t a surprise to competition observers, the team hails from the home of Tianhe-1 and Tianhe-2, meaning they know their way around their GPU-heavy cluster. They also have a bit of a reputation as LINPACK specialists, having won this award in previous competitions.

Team Germany, FAU (Friedrich-Alexander University) grabbed second place with a score of 7.413 TFLOP/s. The Germans (or Team Kraut, as they dubbed themselves) had an equal number of Kepler GPUs as NUDT (8 total), but had only half the memory, at 512GB, as the victorious Chinese.

The reconstituted all-female Team Venus 2.0 nailed down a third place finish in LINPACK with a score of 7.225 TFLOP/s. This is a vast increase (more than 3x) vs. their score and middle of the pack finish at SC12 last year. Nice work, that.

No New LINPACK Record at SC13

For the first time since 2009, we didn’t see a new student LINPACK record set during the competition. In fact, we took a couple of baby steps backwards.

The winning NUDT SC13 score of 8.224 TF would have netted them a third place finish at June’s ISC’13 cluster challenge, behind Huazhong U’s 8.455 TFLOP/s and the 8.321 TF/s turned in by Edinburgh University.

The major reason why we didn’t see a new LINPACK high water mark are mostly due to teams using the same accelerators (GPUs in this case) as they used in the ISC’13 competition several months back. GPUs have been the main driver behind the explosive increase in cluster competition LINPACK scores since 2010.

China's supercomputing whizzkids: Busting out a 8.224 teraflops cluster? Guilty as charged • The Register

Congratulations!

While our Teams from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Tsinghua University grabbed these honours about half year ago in June 2013 at the 2013 International Student Cluster Challenge (ISC'13) held in Leizig, Germany!

China Shocks the Supercomputer Community Again with HUST's HPL Championship

NUDT is winning the above honour back to back: SC 2012 ad 2013

Student Cluster Competition

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