Fastest Computer in the world...

[guyver01]

China's Tianhe-1A is the world's fastest supercomputer, with a peak computing rate of 2.507 petaFLOPS.

It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system.

The Tianhe-1A system is composed of 112 compute cabinets, 12 storage cabinets, 6 communications cabinets, and 8 I/O cabinets. Each compute cabinet is composed of four frames, with each frame containing eight blades, plus a 16-port switching board. Each blade is composed of two compute nodes, with each compute node containing two Xeon X5670 6-core processors and one Nvidia M2050 GPU processor. The system has 3584 total blades containing 7168 GPUs, and 14,336 CPUs. The total disk storage of the systems is 2 Petabytes implemented as a Lustre clustered file system, and the total memory size of the system is 262 Terabytes.

 

[eldorado99]

What is it used for? Weather systems?

 

[zerocool84]

What is it used for? Weather systems?

Locking down the Chinese internet.

 

[Malak]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[guyver01]

What is it used for? Weather systems?

The supercomputer is installed at the National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, and is used to carry out computations for petroleum exploration and aircraft simulation. It is an "open access" computer meaning it provides services for other countries.

 

[Crono]

But can it run Crysis?

What do you think the guys in the 2nd picture are doing?

 

[zerocool84]

But can it run Crysis?

Only 2xAA

 

[God Mode]

can it crack the da vinci code?

 

[geno]

I wonder how bad the diminishing returns are on 14,336 Xeons. I think of the 2x SLI vs 3x SLI performance and multiply that by about 5000.

 

[DivideBYZero]

What is it used for? Weather systems?

Nuclear weapons system simulations.

 

[Riceninja]

Locking down the Chinese internet.

2nd reply. did not disappoint

 

[darkswordsman17]

Lies, walking around with a laptop is faster than a stationary computer.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

if clusters were only more useful to the average joe...

 

[brainhulk]

it must be time to take the census

 

[RavenSEAL]

it must be time to take the census

lol

 

[rivan]

Needs more computer case bling. Clear acrylic sides, cold cathode lights on the bottom, LED-lit fans.

Also, might not be on top for long, according to NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130895386

 

[Schadenfroh]

Also, might not be on top for long, according to NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130895386

Dongara says he knows of five supercomputers now being built that are supposed to be four times more powerful than China's new machine. Three are in the U.S.; two are in Japan.

Flop wars have begun!

 

[rudder]

Slowest repost in the world:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2120528

 

[zokudu]

Slowest repost in the world:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2120528

All I could think of.

 

[dr150]

It's used to calculate how much cheap plastic crap they have to sell in order to rule he world.....

 

[Riceninja]

It's used to calculate how much cheap plastic crap they have to sell in order to rule he world.....

tell your brethren to stop shopping at walmart. spend money to buy higher priced american goods, its worth it

 

[Vic Vega]

Lots of super computers on the planet.

http://www.top500.org/