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China to Crack Supercomputer Top Ten List

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the go-go-gigaflops dept.

jsse writes "ComputerWorld (Hong Kong) has an article about Chinese Academy of Sciences building a supercomputer which has been shown in benchmark tests to process up to 10 trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS) and is expected to take a spot on the list of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers for the first time. The computer is a cluster of 2,560 Opteron 800 series processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) contained in 640 nodes of four processors each. AMD has announced the project last year when the cluster was building."

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  1. i see... by abscondment · · Score: 5, Informative

    The computer's being created by Dawning Information Industry Co. (US Site).

    According to their company profile,

    Dawning is the unique Chinese high-tech company which can manufacture not only low end PC server worth $1,200 but also high end MPP system worth millions USD.

    They seem to serve a lot of different customers, but I have a feeling the government will be making use of this baby.

  2. Re:USA? by chamblah · · Score: 5, Informative
    Does anyone know what the list of top 10 is?

    Here is the current list of 500, last updated in November of '03.