The 'supercomputer' is world's fastest in China

The list of fastest computers in the TOP500 planet, produced every two months by U.S. and German universities, has confirmed in its November issue that the Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer is the fastest in the world, which kills nearly two decades of dominance American and Japanese.
The ranking indicates that computer, located in the National Supercomputing Center in the city of Tianjin (north) is capable of performing 2,670 trillion operations per second (2.67 petaflops per second), above the 1.75 of which so far held the first place, the U.S. Jaguar Cray.
Third place (down one place) in the list is also for China, since it contains the supercomputer Nebulae, from 1.27 petaflops per second, located in the city of Shenzhen (south), the main center of the Chinese technology industry Supercomputer from China. .

Supercomputer' is world's fastest in China

With this achievement, China gets first have the fastest computer in the world, an achievement that has achieved so far only Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, the former Soviet Union and the U.S., and since the early 90's only Nipponese had held computers and Americans.
The Tianhe 1A represents an investment of about $ 90.4 million and was developed by the University of Defence Technology Changsha in central China's Hunan province Supercomputer from China..
Used, however, a number of U.S. components, as 14,336 Intel Xeon X5670 CPUs and GPUs NVIDIA Tesla M2050 7168. The TOP500 is produced bimonthly by the Universities of Mannheim (Germany), Tennessee and Berkeley (USA).

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Despite the Chinese achievement, some China experts have expressed doubts about the new supercomputer, as if Jianwen Cao, Parallel Computing Laboratory (linked to the state Chinese Academy of Sciences), who has come to ensure that the computer wryly can only serve to play.Other experts point out that the Tianhe-1A still shows serious inconsistencies of 'software' and 'hardware', that prevent, for example, its use for military purposes.The petaflop is a thousand billion (or 10 to 15, or 1 followed by 15 zeros) operations per second
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The performance of the fastest computers per 1,000 is multiplied approximately every 11 years. The first computer to beat the teraflop (one trillion flops) is 1996 Supercomputer from China..