Chinese Supercomputer Ranked World’s Second-Fastest ... Challenging U.S. Dominance

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

As reported in New York Times ... A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine, surpassing European and Japanese systems and underscoring China’s aggressive commitment to science and technology.

... The Dawning Nebulae, based at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, has achieved a sustained computing speed of 1.27 petaflops — the equivalent of one thousand trillion mathematical operations a second — in the latest semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest 500 computers ... The world’s fastest computer remains the Cray Jaguar supercomputer, based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee... The Nebulae is based on chips from Intel and Nvidia...

Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/science/01compute.html?th&emc=th

ENJOY!

CC

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