Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

5 of 290 comments (clear)

  1. While that is pretty fast... by Digitus1337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think maybe we should hold off on asking it "why 42?"

  2. Worlds fastest internet filter by ReeferCpe · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is probably the intended use :)

  3. 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.

  4. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The US doesn't want to annex its nearest neighbor by force or failing that, bomb them into submission.

    Iraq.

    The US isn't propping up Stalinist dictatorships that want nukes.

    G. W. Bush already has nukes, and is working on taking all your freedoms. And how many "Stalinist dictatorships" has the U.S. put in power over the years? Castro? Sadam (sp?)?

    The US has more than one political party.

    Two is not much bigger than one. How different are they really? They are mostly the same except for a few distinguishing details. If a third party wanted to run, how long would it take for them to have a realistic shot?

    The US doesn't arrest people in peaceful demonstrations and stick them in prison camps for 10 years at a time.

    Prisoners from Afganistan. These are classified as "non-combatants" by the U.S. government. They are held with no trial, and are not POWs. And let's not forget about "free Kevin," held for (was it) 4 years without trial, and the only reason that he got out was because he agreed to a plea bargain imposed by the prosecutor.

    The US doesn't think it owns Tibet.

    Iraq.

    The US doesn't tell the religious to register with the state or else.

    Any of the government databases that track "undesirables"; members of the comunist party (or is that still illegal?), people of mid-east descent....

  5. 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.