New Supercomputer Launched – The Fastest One Actually

Oct 9, 2012 by waltondeca22

Their supercomputer has been unveiled by chinese named Tianhe-1A, the fastest supercomputer on earth. That complex wonder works at remarkable 2.507 petaflops. For some of you that have no idea about the value of supercomputers let’s only say that every single research about aeronautics, aerodynamics, automotive research and every other industry greatly depends on research done using supercomputers.For those of you that understand a bit about supercomputers you are probably thinking how do Tianhe-1A function as fastest computer on earth if the US XT supercomputer named Jaguar assessed maximum efficiency of 2.66 petaflops? Well that’s just it; Jaguar scored its peak performance at 2.66 petaflops while Tianhe-1A operates easily at 2.507 petaflops and its peak performance is yet to be identified because it was just put into state. The smooth running performance for Jaguar XT is 1.7 petaflops.As for one other technical facets of Tianhe-1A as this little baby monster runs on 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs you’ll be happily surprised. What that means is that we’ve a chance to see in action around 50,000 CPU’s in one machine, and the very best part according to Chinese officials and Nvidia is that it uses 3 times less power than those CPU’s would.Next month at the SC 2010 initial supercomputing conference in New Jersey will be conducted a display of the Tianhe-1A’s power and we will be ready to see the maximum performance that is projected to top the one set by Linpack XT Jaguar of 2.66 petaflops.But according to Oak Ridge they’re working hard on a supercomputer that will likely be finished somewhere in 2011 and will be even stronger and faster than Tianhe-1A. This isn’t a competition or even a race, we truly need supercomputers for numerous kinds of investigation, the quicker they are the more understanding may be obtained.

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