China claims supercomputer crown (BBC) {2.5 Petaflops}

[eppur_se_muova]

China has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's supercomputers.

The title has gone to China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2.5 thousand trillion calculations a second.

To reach such high speeds the machine draws on more than 7,000 graphics processors and 14,000 Intel chips.

The claim to be the fastest machine on the planet has been ratified by the Top 500 Organisation which maintains a list of the most powerful machines.

High power

China's Tianhe-1A (Milky Way) has taken over the top spot from America's XT5 Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee that can carry out only 1.75 petaflops per second. One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11644252

http://www.top500.org (very busy right now)

[Ian David]

1. But an hour after computing, it still feels like it wants to compute again. n/t

[rrneck]

2. They had to build it

to figure out how much we owe them.

[ET Awful]

3. That XT5 Jaguar is such a pile of junk . . . ONLY 1.75 thousand trillion calculations per second

Pffffffft. How worthless is that?

[Wickerman]

4. USA!

[bluedigger]

5. Took them long enough...

[saras]

6. Better get used to it

Until we get our country back, any science of consequence will continue going down the tubes like it has been since we handed funding over to corporations. If they can't profit from it, we don't need to know it.

BTW do you think that if the NSA had a faster machine, that we'd know about it? China would.

[gtar100]

7. Better to crack your encryption with, my dear.

!

[txlibdem]

8. This whole idiotic race to get the fastest computer is a FLOP

Why don't we have high speed rail by now?

(Note: pun(s) intended)

[Systematic Chaos]

9. I only pet my flop about one time per second.

Just sayin'....

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