China Builds The Fastest Supercomputer

China has taken the lead in the supercomputer (the fastest computers on the planet) race, having built a 155 ton system using 7,168 GPUs (Graphic Processing Units, from high end graphic cards) and 14,336 CPUs to achieve peak performance of 2.507 petaflops (a petaflop is one million billion floating point operations per second, otherwise known as FLOPS). Sustained speed is 563 teraflops (one thousand billion). The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer cost $88 million, requires 4.04 magawatts of power and occupies 1,000 square meters (10,764 square feet). Given that China manufactures a growing share of electronic items, and Chinese students have long dominated electronic engineering departments in American universities, this development should come as no surprise. Tianhe-1A will be used for civilian (oil exploration) and military (aircraft and missile design) applications.

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It's no surprise that China is an innovative future leader in computer technology, thanks to their tech gurus who were educated at U.S. universities.





Their tech world has taken off like a rocket...

Keep in mind, the actual graphics chips themselves are designed in the United States, and produced in Taiwan. The CPU's that it employs were also designed in the US or Israel, and produced elsewhere (intel has tons of fabs).

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