China successfully developed "Milky Way One" Supercomputer

[zalbard]

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.

There is also a video available on the page. No clue how to link it, sorry.
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.

[IvanAndreevich]

That's a dual GPU Radeon, judging by the card on top (it's flipped). How do they have access to unreleased hardware on a massive scale?

[zalbard]

That's a dual GPU Radeon, judging by the card on top (it's flipped). How do they have access to unreleased hardware on a massive scale?

Well, looks like 4870x2 to me.

[surfinhicdude]

Is it filled with caramel and delicious?

[Chumbucket843]

Well, looks like 4870x2 to me.

why the hell would they use radeons? i think its fake. no one would deploy a massive scale of gpu's and not use the professional series. their is just too much risk.

[ajaidev]

lolll, i am running MilkyWay@home on 4x5850 with GD70 and X4 955, more power than that blade :P

[zalbard]

Wonder why they used 4870x2 if GT200 is really better for GPGPU.

why the hell would they use radeons? i think its fake. no one would deploy a massive scale of gpu's and not use the professional series. their is just too much risk.

Fake? LOL. It's a live video made by CCTV!

[zalbard]

Updated, for those not believing that it uses AMD GPUs. Also specs in the OP.

[annihilat0r]

"Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs, Tianhe was able to store all 27 million books in the National Library of China four times over"

the professor who said this thinks that CPUs and GPUs are there for storage?

[rogueagent6]

"Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs, Tianhe was able to store all 27 million books in the National Library of China four times over"

the professor who said this thinks that CPUs and GPUs are there for storage?

This is China we are talking about, they're probably only going to use it to infiltrate more gold farmers into WoW.

[Z3R0-CooL]

"Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs, Tianhe was able to store all 27 million books in the National Library of China four times over"

the professor who said this thinks that CPUs and GPUs are there for storage?

those where my exact thoughts...

[eric66]

cool so this is why we have shortage on radeons damn you chinese

[annihilat0r]

in communist China, supercomputer uses YOU!!!!

[Chumbucket843]

Updated, for those not believing that it uses AMD GPUs. Also specs in the OP.

i believe its using AMD gpu's but not their desktop line. they already lied about this computer saying it is on the petascale. on linpack it only gets 563 teraflops which is the super pi benchie of supercomputers. maybe it has different firmware. its only ranked 5th in energy efficiency. it looks like the cell is still the king of efficiency.

[kamieldehond]

"
the professor who said this thinks that CPUs and GPUs are there for storage?

[Sam_oslo]

"Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs, Tianhe was able to store all 27 million books in the National Library of China four times over"

the professor who said this thinks that CPUs and GPUs are there for storage?

Well even my 30GB SSD can keep that many books (ok ok almost). I guess the translation is a bit off, maybe he mean keep i "memory".

[turtletrax]

in communist China, supercomputer uses YOU!!!!

Classic.

[AbelJemka]

I also think the traduction is off!

[Helloworld_98]

And now the Chinese wage war with the US because the 5970 and Intel's Gulftown is about to be released and they've already paid out a load for the current setup.

[Sam_oslo]

Those 4870x2 wouldn't make any sense for computing power (it would be really crappy compared to NVIDIA CUDA GPGPU), but those "crappy" GPUs have 2GB memory each.

Are they using the memory of GPU for caching?

[annihilat0r]

more like for storing books from the national chinese library

[Helloworld_98]

Those 4870x2 wouldn't make any sense for computing power (it would be really crappy compared to NVIDIA CUDA GPGPU), but those "crappy" GPUs have 2GB memory each.

Are they using the memory of GPU for caching?

what are you on about?

the programs these guys use would be looking for more teraflops, not ease of programming, the 4870X2 has over 2Tflops, even the GTX 295 has nowhere near that number.

[AbelJemka]

Those 4870x2 wouldn't make any sense for computing power (it would be really crappy compared to NVIDIA CUDA GPGPU), but those "crappy" GPUs have 2GB memory each.

Are they using the memory of GPU for caching?

You know that theorically RV770 has more computing power than G200?

[HamidFULL]

in communist China, supercomputer uses YOU!!!!

+1

[zalbard]

i believe its using AMD gpu's but not their desktop line. they already lied about this computer saying it is on the petascale. on linpack it only gets 563 teraflops which is the super pi benchie of supercomputers. maybe it has different firmware. its only ranked 5th in energy efficiency. it looks like the cell is still the king of efficiency.

Maybe cause GPUs don't work in Linpack? I don't know, honestly.
Or maybe they listed peak performance, which is always higher than what Linpack shows us.