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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Third world penis envy by benjfowler · 2012-10-31 02:27 · Score: 0, Troll

Third-world cretins with Third-world penis envy, who have this overwhelming need to "prove" how big and manly they are.
Muslims build really tall buildings (with Western technology and engineering).
These Chinese, it seems, prefer to build big computers. It's a natural consequence of having a basketcase dictatorship run by insecure little engineering majors.