The launch of the latest supercomputer from China, from 5000, reflects both the strengths and weaknesses of the expansion of computing research in the country. Running at 160 teraflops, the supercomputer in early 5000 was the seventh best time in the world, had not lost the TOP500 list than a week. 6600 supercomputer K10 quad-core AMD Opteron 700 kilowatts per hour. The 200 million yuan (29 million dollars per unit), developed by Dr. Sun Ninghuied to be installed in Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC) for research on mapping the genome, earthquakes and weather forecasting, research and analysis of image mining.
The supercomputer used in children in the country Loongson III (Godson) processor. However, production problems, costs and delays have led the information industry change DAWNING AMD Corporation. According to company president, vice-Hua Nie, "Our client (CDC) requires the functions of the system to run on Microsoft Windows operating system, while the chip Longsoon achieved the major competitors of Linux operating system" . Longsoon future supercomputers can use the chip DAWNING, but this is unlikely in the near future because of performance issues.
Tianhe 6144 is equipped with Intel and AMD 5120 GPU.
The world's fastest 500 supercomputers in the United States, 291 inventions, including the top 10 in Europe and Asia to 145, 49 June, the World Top 500 List said.
The same list, the mainland of China, has 20 high-performance computers with multiple processors supplied by foreign producers.
China Information Industry DAWNING company is trying to build their own supercomputer that goes beyond the petaflop barrier in 2010.
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