China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @02:16AM from the mips-vs-arm-culture-conflict dept.

concealment writes "As the U.S. launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops, China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer will run at 100 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second), according to the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center, where the machine will be housed. Tianhe-2 could help keep China competitive with the future supercomputers of other countries, as industry experts estimate machines will start reaching 1,000-petaflop performance by 2018." And, naturally, it's planned to use a domestically developed MIPS processor

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Re:Yeah right by fredprado · 2012-10-31 02:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

Chinese technology has already gone much farther than you give them credit, and the natural tendency is for them to surpass stagnated US sooner or later. Considering how US has put in place so many impediments to innovation with the excuse of "helping innovation" that is just a matter of time.

And please, although the Chinese government is very corrupt, it is not more corrupt than US government or US corporations.