supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge National Laboratory was in second place.
first five TOP500 list in November 2010

Soon the Chinese system may seem a little one compared to now being built by the company Cray Computer monster, named Titan. Funds for the project in the amount of $ 100 million allocated U.S. Department of Energy, which will subsequently operate the machine to calculate the complex energy systems. According to the project, Titan will be up to 8 times faster than current champion from China, that is able to carry up to 20 quadrillion (20 * 1015) floating-point operations per second (20 petaflops). Translating mathematical ability in man-machine, can communicate that to calculate the amount of data that Titan is able to “digest” for 1 second, it was necessary to “employ” 120 billion people with calculators for 50 years.

With regard to technical implementation of the project, the Cray is planning to use as nodes in the system XT3, XT4 and XT5, combined high performance tire intercomponent Gemini XE. To increase the computing power will be used has already become a traditional bunch of CPU + GPU. Started the system in full force is scheduled for 2012. But by this time you may receive the Titan at least one worthy opponent. On plans to release a supercomputer with a capacity of not less than 20 petaflops recently announced IBM. Her car under the name Sequoia will engage in a simulation of nuclear explosions and their consequences.

Certainly in the depths of China and Japan, “Research” and “CB” is also maturing plans for the supercomputers of the same class as the products of Cray and IBM. So the race goes supercomputer arms to a new level.

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]

supercomputers built in the U.S. for a long time were on the top ranking in the TOP500, but in November last year, the leaders came computational monster from China – Tianhe-1A, showing a LINPACK test performance in floating point operations, equal to 2.57 petaflops. Thus, the previous leader of the Jaguar supercomputer ranking Oak Ridge [...]