China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer

shmG writes "China has replaced the United States as the maker of the world's fastest supercomputer. A Chinese research center has made the world's faster super computer — named as Tianhe-1A, which was released at a national conference on high-performance computers (HPC) in China. Made at a cost of over $88 million, Tianhe-1A is theoretically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) at peak speed. Tianhe-1A 's peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops (1,000 teraflops is equal to one petaflop) on the Linpack benchmark."

Comments

Does it run Linux?

[fluffy99]

But does it run (Red Flag) Linux?

Re:Does it run Linux?

[WrongSizeGlass]

But does it run (Red Flag) Linux?

And can it run *Flash?



* run Flash without using > 50% of the CPU's

Re:Good on the Chinese

[WrongSizeGlass]

Sadly, China needed to build this computer simply to calculate the interest on the US debt in realtime.

Meh

[csoto]

The only reason it's so fast is because a half hour after you feed it data, it's hungry again...