China beats its own record with the world's fastest supercomputer
The Sunway TaihuLight, a recently built supercomputer from China, is now ranked as the most powerful machine in the world.
During the International Supercomputer Conference in Germany on Monday, TOP500 announced the 10.65 million-core Sunway TaihuLight of China as the fastest supercomputer in the world.
With 93 petaflops of processing power, the Sunway TaihuLight is almost three times more powerful than the previous fastest supercomputer in the world, Tianhe-2, which was the world's fastest computer for the last three years with speeds of 33.9 petaflops per second.
The supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputer Center in Wuxi.
The Sunway TaihuLight, with its 10,649,600 computing cores, includes 40,960 nodes, is one of the most efficient systems in the world, with peak energy consumption under load at a relatively modest 15.37 megawatts of energy consumption.
What is the irony?
The microprocessors inside the Sunway TaihuLight are 100% Chinese.
The Sunway TaihuLight is powered entirely by Chinese processors and runs on a customized Linux-based operating system.
Professor Guangwen Yang said:
“As the number one system of China that is entirely based on domestic processors, the Sunway TaihuLight system shows the significant progress China has made in the field of design and construction of large-scale computer systems.”.
Sunway TaihuLight will be used in scientific research and engineering work such as life science research, data analysis, etc.
One thing is for sure, China has paved the way for Supercomputers!
