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China not only will have the one fastest supercomputer, but also have the highest number of supercomputers in their country. They have wide uses, and huge demands for many projects. they have also the World's ONLY Quantum Encrypted UNHACKABLE optical network to link up their supercomputers across their country, no one is so advanced. More than 200 supercomputers now in China, linked by strongest optical network, it is unbeatable Total Power.
In June US struggled with IBM & Dept of Energy to get a 200 pentaflop topping Chinese TianHe-2, but their ranking can last for only less than 30 days, until now, the TianHe-3 came out with 240 pentaflops, got the top position again.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2018-07/26/c_1123182478.htm
国产百亿亿次超算技术实现新突破 “天河三号”E级原型机完成研制部署
2018年07月26日 20:01:48 | 来源: 新华网
这是7月26日拍摄的“天河三号”E级原型机全貌。近日从位于天津滨海新区旗下开发区的国家超级计算天津中心传来消息,我国自主研发的新一代百亿亿次超级计算机——“天河三号”E级原型机完成研制部署,并顺利通过分项验收。该原型机系统采用了三种国产自主高性能计算和通信芯片。在此基础上,“天河三号”超级计算机预计于2020年研制成功。新华社记者 毛振华 摄
这是7月26日拍摄的国家超级计算天津中心。近日从位于天津滨海新区旗下开发区的国家超级计算天津中心传来消息,我国自主研发的新一代百亿亿次超级计算机——“天河三号”E级原型机完成研制部署,并顺利通过分项验收。该原型机系统采用了三种国产自主高性能计算和通信芯片。在此基础上,“天河三号”超级计算机预计于2020年研制成功。新华社记者 毛振华 摄
This is the full picture of the "Tianhe No. 3" E-class prototype taken on July 26. Recently, the news came from the National Supercomputing Tianjin Center, which is located in the development zone of Tianjin Binhai New Area. The newly developed multi-billion-dollar supercomputer, the “Tianhe No.3” E-class prototype, was successfully developed and deployed. Acceptance of items. The prototype system uses three domestically produced independent high-performance computing and communication chips. On this basis, the "Tianhe No. 3" supercomputer is expected to be successfully developed in 2020. Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Zhenhua photo
https://qz.com/1313477/top-500-supe...d-of-the-us-in-its-share-of-the-top-machines/
PETAFLIP-FLOPS This is how dramatically China’s beating the US in its share of supercomputers
Building momentum. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)
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Echo Huang
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Machines with Brains
June 25, 2018
The US has regained its crown of owning the world’s fastest supercomputer—the machines that can achieve medical and scientific breakthroughs thanks to their enormous processing power—for the first time in six years. But China’s leaving the US in the dust when it comes to their respective shares of the world’s top supercomputers.
According to the latest Top 500 list, published Monday (June 25), China has 206 supercomputers and is leading the US by a record margin—82. The US has just 124 machines on the list, “a new low,” according to the statement accompanying the ranking. Just six months ago, China, with 202 of the top computers, was only ahead of the US by 59. Top 500 has been releasing the supercomputer ranking, compiled by prominent computer scientists, every six months since 1993.
China emerged from having not a single supercomputer on the list in 2002 to becoming a dominant power—it has had the top supercomputer on the Top 500 list for the past five years.
Still, the US regained the top performance position with Summit, an IBM-system-backed supercomputer now running at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Summit’s calculation speed is 122.3 petaflops per second (Pflop/s)—the performance measurement used by Top 500. At its peak, Summit’s calculation speed can reach 200 Pflop/s, which is equivalent to around 6.3 billion people making a calculation at the same time for an entire year. According to the Top 500 list, taking computing capability into account puts the US ahead of China.
Summit surpasses China’s Sunway TaihuLight, which had been the world’s top supercomputer with a calculation speed of 93 Pflop/s since it started operating in June 2016.
Both the US and China are speeding up to the next stage of supercomputing—building a machine that can calculate at an exaflop, which is 1,000 petaflops. The US hopes to achieve the goal by 2021, while China is looking to beat the US a year ahead.
Share of world's fastest 500 supercomputers, by country
China
US
Data: TOP500 | As of June each year
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/...mputer-will-be-competing-in-a-few-months.html
China’s 240 petaflop supercomputer and 200+ petaflop US supercomputer will be competing in a few months
brian wang | January 30, 2018
China will be launching one of three pre-exaFlop supercomputers later this year. The new supercomputer will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the Tianhe-1 supercomputer, China’s first petaflop supercomputer launched in 2010, Zhang said.
Above – Phytium FT2000/64 ARM chip that is expected to power the new 240 petaflop supercomputer
The supercomputer center in Tianjin began developing the exascale supercomputer with the National University of Defense Technology in 2016.
According to the national plan for the next generation of high-performance computers, China will develop an exascale computer during the 13th Five-Year-Plan period (2016-2020).
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Tianhe-1 delivers 1.2 peak petaflops, and 563 Linpack teraflops. A relatively old system now, Tiane-1 is powered by Intel Nehalem-era Xeon CPUs and now-ancient ATI Radeon GPUs.
Tianhe-1 supercomputer
If Zhang’s 200X performance multiplier is accurate, the new supercomputer he’s referring to will deliver 240 peak petaflops, making it the most powerful high-performance computing system in China, and possibly the entire world. The current champ on the TOP500 list is Sunway TaihuLight, another Chinese supercomputer. That system delivers 125.4 peak petaflops and achieved its number one spot on the list with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) run of 93.0 petaflops.
Summit, a supercomputer currently being built at Oak Ridge National Lab, is expected to provide over 200 peak petaflops when it comes online this spring. That “over 200 petaflops” could easily reach to 240 petaflops or even higher. Up until now, it looked like Summit had a lock on the number one spot for the June TOP500 list. But if Summit’s Chinese counterpart manages to exceed it in peak flops and gets a decent HPL run, America’s hopes for the TOP500 crown will be foiled once again.
Summit Supercomputer
The new chinese supercomputer could be the Tianhe-2A supercomputer which is the long-overdue follow-up to Tianhe-1A. It was supposed to be deployed in 2017, when it was being characterized as a 100-petaflop machine. It’s conceivable that the Chinese decided that rather than building another system with a similar performance to TaihuLight, they would take some additional effort and time to come up with a Summit-beater in 2018.
The Tianhe-2A is expected to be powered by a combo of Phytium FT2000/64 ARM chips and Matrix2000 GPDSP accelerators. Assuming they keep those processors in place at their current rated performance (0.5 teraflops and 2.4 teraflops, respectively), they will have to more than double the node count to achieve 240 petaflops. That works out to about 43,000 nodes, which is lot, but certainly not unreasonable for such a machine. (Aurora, the first exascale machine in the US is supposedly going to have 50,000 nodes.)
In June US struggled with IBM & Dept of Energy to get a 200 pentaflop topping Chinese TianHe-2, but their ranking can last for only less than 30 days, until now, the TianHe-3 came out with 240 pentaflops, got the top position again.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2018-07/26/c_1123182478.htm
国产百亿亿次超算技术实现新突破 “天河三号”E级原型机完成研制部署
2018年07月26日 20:01:48 | 来源: 新华网
这是7月26日拍摄的“天河三号”E级原型机全貌。近日从位于天津滨海新区旗下开发区的国家超级计算天津中心传来消息,我国自主研发的新一代百亿亿次超级计算机——“天河三号”E级原型机完成研制部署,并顺利通过分项验收。该原型机系统采用了三种国产自主高性能计算和通信芯片。在此基础上,“天河三号”超级计算机预计于2020年研制成功。新华社记者 毛振华 摄
这是7月26日拍摄的国家超级计算天津中心。近日从位于天津滨海新区旗下开发区的国家超级计算天津中心传来消息,我国自主研发的新一代百亿亿次超级计算机——“天河三号”E级原型机完成研制部署,并顺利通过分项验收。该原型机系统采用了三种国产自主高性能计算和通信芯片。在此基础上,“天河三号”超级计算机预计于2020年研制成功。新华社记者 毛振华 摄
This is the full picture of the "Tianhe No. 3" E-class prototype taken on July 26. Recently, the news came from the National Supercomputing Tianjin Center, which is located in the development zone of Tianjin Binhai New Area. The newly developed multi-billion-dollar supercomputer, the “Tianhe No.3” E-class prototype, was successfully developed and deployed. Acceptance of items. The prototype system uses three domestically produced independent high-performance computing and communication chips. On this basis, the "Tianhe No. 3" supercomputer is expected to be successfully developed in 2020. Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Zhenhua photo
https://qz.com/1313477/top-500-supe...d-of-the-us-in-its-share-of-the-top-machines/
PETAFLIP-FLOPS This is how dramatically China’s beating the US in its share of supercomputers
Building momentum. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)
Share
Written by
Echo Huang
Obsession
Machines with Brains
June 25, 2018
The US has regained its crown of owning the world’s fastest supercomputer—the machines that can achieve medical and scientific breakthroughs thanks to their enormous processing power—for the first time in six years. But China’s leaving the US in the dust when it comes to their respective shares of the world’s top supercomputers.
According to the latest Top 500 list, published Monday (June 25), China has 206 supercomputers and is leading the US by a record margin—82. The US has just 124 machines on the list, “a new low,” according to the statement accompanying the ranking. Just six months ago, China, with 202 of the top computers, was only ahead of the US by 59. Top 500 has been releasing the supercomputer ranking, compiled by prominent computer scientists, every six months since 1993.
China emerged from having not a single supercomputer on the list in 2002 to becoming a dominant power—it has had the top supercomputer on the Top 500 list for the past five years.
Still, the US regained the top performance position with Summit, an IBM-system-backed supercomputer now running at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Summit’s calculation speed is 122.3 petaflops per second (Pflop/s)—the performance measurement used by Top 500. At its peak, Summit’s calculation speed can reach 200 Pflop/s, which is equivalent to around 6.3 billion people making a calculation at the same time for an entire year. According to the Top 500 list, taking computing capability into account puts the US ahead of China.
Summit surpasses China’s Sunway TaihuLight, which had been the world’s top supercomputer with a calculation speed of 93 Pflop/s since it started operating in June 2016.
Both the US and China are speeding up to the next stage of supercomputing—building a machine that can calculate at an exaflop, which is 1,000 petaflops. The US hopes to achieve the goal by 2021, while China is looking to beat the US a year ahead.
Share of world's fastest 500 supercomputers, by country
China
US
Data: TOP500 | As of June each year
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/...mputer-will-be-competing-in-a-few-months.html
China’s 240 petaflop supercomputer and 200+ petaflop US supercomputer will be competing in a few months
brian wang | January 30, 2018
China will be launching one of three pre-exaFlop supercomputers later this year. The new supercomputer will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the Tianhe-1 supercomputer, China’s first petaflop supercomputer launched in 2010, Zhang said.
Above – Phytium FT2000/64 ARM chip that is expected to power the new 240 petaflop supercomputer
The supercomputer center in Tianjin began developing the exascale supercomputer with the National University of Defense Technology in 2016.
According to the national plan for the next generation of high-performance computers, China will develop an exascale computer during the 13th Five-Year-Plan period (2016-2020).
REED HASTINGS: THE MASTERMIND BEHIND NETFLIX
Sponsored by Connatix
Tianhe-1 delivers 1.2 peak petaflops, and 563 Linpack teraflops. A relatively old system now, Tiane-1 is powered by Intel Nehalem-era Xeon CPUs and now-ancient ATI Radeon GPUs.
Tianhe-1 supercomputer
If Zhang’s 200X performance multiplier is accurate, the new supercomputer he’s referring to will deliver 240 peak petaflops, making it the most powerful high-performance computing system in China, and possibly the entire world. The current champ on the TOP500 list is Sunway TaihuLight, another Chinese supercomputer. That system delivers 125.4 peak petaflops and achieved its number one spot on the list with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) run of 93.0 petaflops.
Summit, a supercomputer currently being built at Oak Ridge National Lab, is expected to provide over 200 peak petaflops when it comes online this spring. That “over 200 petaflops” could easily reach to 240 petaflops or even higher. Up until now, it looked like Summit had a lock on the number one spot for the June TOP500 list. But if Summit’s Chinese counterpart manages to exceed it in peak flops and gets a decent HPL run, America’s hopes for the TOP500 crown will be foiled once again.
Summit Supercomputer
The new chinese supercomputer could be the Tianhe-2A supercomputer which is the long-overdue follow-up to Tianhe-1A. It was supposed to be deployed in 2017, when it was being characterized as a 100-petaflop machine. It’s conceivable that the Chinese decided that rather than building another system with a similar performance to TaihuLight, they would take some additional effort and time to come up with a Summit-beater in 2018.
The Tianhe-2A is expected to be powered by a combo of Phytium FT2000/64 ARM chips and Matrix2000 GPDSP accelerators. Assuming they keep those processors in place at their current rated performance (0.5 teraflops and 2.4 teraflops, respectively), they will have to more than double the node count to achieve 240 petaflops. That works out to about 43,000 nodes, which is lot, but certainly not unreasonable for such a machine. (Aurora, the first exascale machine in the US is supposedly going to have 50,000 nodes.)