China successfully developed "Milky Way One" Supercomputer

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Source: http://english.cctv.com/

China unveils its fastest supercomputer. The powerful giant server makes China the second country after the US, to build supercomputers capable of making a quadrillion calculations per second.



The National University of Defense Technology unveiled the supercomputer in Hunan Province. With 7 key innovative technologies, the computer can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second at its peak speed. Experts say the standard of technology in the giant server ranks it the highest of China's 100 supercomputers.

Professor Zhou Xingming from National University of Defense Technology, said, "Simply put, if everyone of the 1.3 billion people that live in China took a digital photograph, this supercomputer could hold all of them."

The high performance server will provide services to users at home and abroad. Scientists say it will be used in various fields, such as biotechnology, aviation, resource survey, remote sensing satellites and forecasting earthquakes.

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Have a look at this image, though... Took a screenshot from the video.



I spot something familiar!

China became the world's second nation after the United States can develop a petaflop supercomputer.

@ http://english.people.com.cn/

Good job guys! This had to happen sooner or later.

Edit: UPDATE!
Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Edit2: UPDATE!
Source: http://en.expreview.com/

Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs (3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5540s and 3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5450) and 5120 AMD GPUs (2560 Radeon HD 4870 X2s), Milky Way One’s peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark.

The 155-ton system, with 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up on an area of about 1,000 square meters, which cost at least 600 million yuan (88.24 million U.S. dollars) is expected to process seismic data for oil exploration, conduct bio-medical computing and help design aerospace vehicles, according to NUDT president Zhang Yulin.

A single-day task for Milky Way One might take a mainstream dual-core personal computer 160 years to complete, working non-top - if it can last that long.

Zhang said the technical data of Milky Way One had been submitted to the world Top 500 list, compiled by the University of Mannheim, in Germany, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee in the United States.