Sylence Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 To put it frankly, China has been absolutely killing the competition in the TOP500 supercomputer rankings for the last couple of years. Its Sunway TaihuLight has been sitting at the top of the pile well ahead of the Tianhe-2, another Chinese supercomputer. Now, the country is saying that it has a new computer which will be ready in 12 months. The new Sunway exascale computer being developed by the National Supercomputer Center (NSC) and the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) will be able to execute a quintillion calculations per second, making it eight times faster than the Sunway TiahuLight, which scored 93 petaflops to make first place on the TOP500 list. The new supercomputer has already gone into production in Jinan. Once completed, the new computer will support further research and scientific applications in fields including marine environments, biological information, aviation, and aerospace. As we get better supercomputers, computationally intensive tasks such as predicting the weather and climate change will become easier to perform and the results will be more accurate. In November, we reported that Japan would be gunning for the top spot on the supercomputer rankings. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry had planned to spend $173 million on developing a new supercomputer called ABCI or AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure. The country hopes that it can edge in front of China by scoring 130 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. With the latest news from China, Japan might not have the opportunity to move ahead after all. Neowin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioHazard Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Thank you, US govt for banning Intel from selling chips to China's supercomputer. Now they are well ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 39 minutes ago, BioHazard said: Thank you, US govt for banning Intel from selling chips to China's supercomputer. Now they are well ahead At lest there not down in 45th place like Canada is ! if you are against the west so much why don't move there and live behind the great firewall and enjoy being censored and need a work around to even reach nsanedown. They may have 160 soon to be a 161 super computers but also they have a closed and censored internet so you're for censorship? Everything in the USA is made in China anyways . China makes the rich people in the USA very rich they make the products over there and there workers get paid nothing and bring it back to USA and ship it all over the world and charge a lot for it. They get paid like US$327 a month in Shanghai in most other cites they just make like US$239 a month in poor places they get even less. Sounds like a great place if you're rich and need workers . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recruit Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 I have a HC 2000 better than that ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info999 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 supercomputer = super AI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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