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Chinese Supercomputer Now Fastest on Earth
- igravious 16y agoWhat I find interesting about this is that apparently the Chinese have developed their own interconnect 'sauce' rather than using Infiniband or whatever. The article does not mention Linux but I presume that is the operating software they are using. Oh yeah, reading the comment section in Engadget to this article reminded me why I stopped even scanning Engadget posts, talk about infantile.
- icegreentea 16y agoWhat I find more interesting is this bit: "Mr. Dongarra said a long-running Chinese project to build chips to rival those from Intel and others remained under way and looked promising. "It’s not quite there yet, but it will be in a year or two," he said. " Can anyone comment on how much that comment reflects reality? I don't doubt China has the ability to do this, but at the same time, China does have a reputation when it comes to reaching parity with western designs...
- patrickgzill 16y agoMy understanding was that they were using MIPS derivatives or CPUs that used the MIPS instruction set.
- jbarham 16y ago> What I find interesting about this is that apparently the Chinese have developed their own interconnect This isn't uncommon in the HPC world. E.g., IBM's Blue Gene/L series features a custom torus interconnect.
- wmf 16y agoApparently this interconnect is so good it's not available outside China. I wonder if any technical information will be available.
- meric 16y agocan perform mathematical operations about 29 million times faster than one of the earliest supercomputers, built in 1976. I would like to know how fast is a macbook pro compared to one of the earliest supercomputer, built in 1976.