Chinese Supercomputer Blazes Path to Glory

 Chinese Supercomputer Blazes Path to Glory

The Chinese computer Tianhe-1A has a Linpack benchmark performance of 2.507 petaflops, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world. The Tianhe was built using thousands of GPUs. "Supercomputing is where most of the cutting-edge work is done -- aeronautical research, automotive research, there's hardly a single industry where work isn't conducted with supercomputers," said analyst Rob Enderle.

China has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, at a high-performance computing conference in Beijing.

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NCSA director: GPU is future of supercomputing

Thom Dunning 

The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has seen the future of supercomputing and it can be summed up in three letters: GPU.

Thom Dunning, who directs the NCSA and the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies at the famed supercomputing facilities on the campus of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says high-performance computing will begin to move toward graphics processing units or GPUs. Not coincidentally, this is exactly what China has done to achieve the world's fastest speeds with its "Tianhe-1A" supercomputer. That computer combines about 7,000 Nvidia GPUs with 14,000 Intel CPUs: the only hybrid CPU-GPU system in the world of that scale.

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