China's fastest supercomputer

[xtremer]

CHANGSHA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) unveiled Thursday China's fastest supercomputer, which could rival the world's most powerful computing devices.
he supercomputer, named Tianhe, meaning Milky Way, is theoretically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) at peak speed. A single-day task for Tianhe might take a mainstream dual-core personal computer 160 years to complete, working non-top -- if it can last that long.
NUDT president Zhang Yulin said the 155-ton system, with 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up on an area of about 1,000 square meters, is expected to process seismic data for oil exploration, conduct bio-medical computing and help design aerospace vehicles.
China's national high-technology research and development program and the Binhai New Area, a major economic development zonein the northern port city of Tianjin jointly financed Tianhe, which cost at least 600 million yuan (88.24 million U.S. dollars).
Tianhe's peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops (1,000 teraflops equals one petaflop) on the Linpack benchmark, which was originally developed by U.S. computer scientist Jack Dongarra and has become an internationally recognized method to measure a supercomputer's real performance in practical use.

[Tawa]

Lebanon's Fastest Supercomputer is in Batroun. kidding

Anyways, 1 Quadrillion calculations per second, sounds hilarious to me.
If you want to compare it with old supercomputers, it's like the difference between Weam Wahhab and Saad El Hariri when it comes to Speaking.

[Google]

Originally Posted by xtremer

China's national high-technology research and development program and the Binhai New Area, a major economic development zonein the northern port city of Tianjin jointly financed Tianhe, which cost at least 600 million yuan (88.24 million U.S. dollars).

That's cheap! If I had 100 million U.S. dollars I would by it.
Dakhlak chou nezellou anti-virus?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Google

That's cheap! If I had 100 million U.S. dollars I would by it.
Dakhlak chou nezellou anti-virus?

If they install Norton it'll be just as fast as a dual-core

[Gilgamesh]

Originally Posted by Google

That's cheap! If I had 100 million U.S. dollars I would by it.
Dakhlak chou nezellou anti-virus?

Man its chinese Thats why its 100 million but you pay a lot for maintenance cuz baddo ydallo yekhrab...

I suggest you pay 120 millions and buy the swedish supercomputer..This way you will save on the long run and always have your hands and feet in cold water

[xcoder]

In less than 10 years this speed will be available for 200$ :P 10 years ago el fat7al had a 350Mhz computer

[Neoxter]

why do people have this wrong cheap image abt chinese products, chinese products differ in quality, most of the ones u see here are the large scale industrial products which are the shittiest products ever..but contrary they have some top-class products that compete with the world's best. China will become the strongest nation in the world.

[Gilgamesh]

Neo,what part of my post made u believe its a serious post?

[Neoxter]

Originally Posted by Gilgamesh

Neo,what part of my post made u believe its a serious post?

Man its chinese Thats why its 100 million but you pay a lot for maintenance cuz baddo ydallo yekhrab...

not that serious :P bas i'm making a point.

[xtremer]

They will use Windows vista home premuim (bas akid with SP2 w mish liscened) with free Avast (battal ma3on wala dollar yeshtero license) on it.....LOL IMAGINE !