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China builds petaflop supercomputer without AMD, Intel or Nvidia
COMMUNIST China has built its first supercomputer using chips designed and manufactured in China instead of relying on AMD, Intel or Nvidia.
China's new Sunway Bluelight MPP was installed in the country's National Supercomputer Center in Jinan in September, with estimates pegging the cluster somewhere around the petaflop mark. The cluster is made up of 8,700 Shenwei SW1600 processors, which are completely designed and manufactured in China.
China is no stranger to high performance computing (HPC). Last year the Dawning Nebulae cluster managed to take the runner-up spot on the prestigious TOP500 list, powered by Nvidia's Tesla boards. Later in the year the Chinese Tianhe-1A took the top spot, again powered by a mix of CPUs and GPUs.
However China's past success in the HPC arena has been down to good old fashioned American technology. The chips might have been baked in China but the design was done by US-based firms. The 8,700 Shenwei SW1600 processors represent the country's first comprehensive design and construction effort to build a large scale HPC cluster.
Since the TOP500 list and supercomputers in general are often viewed as objects of national pride, it's no surprise that China wants to produce its own supercomputer. While the Shenwei cluster isn't quite ready to usurp Japan's K-Computer, few will bet against China heading the TOP500 list with its own chips before too long. µ
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"that in 2050 when China GDP will be 4 times the US,"
I predict that USA will drop from its perch of being a superpower by 2020, latest 2025. Already you are witnessing internal conflicts right now. An imminent civil war may break out anytime.
This assumes that some form of North American Union won't pre-empt the decline.
Advice to Americans: put down that star-spangled flag, stop watching the NFL pseudo-football, and start learning some Chinese.
This could be the mixture of many different secret technologies from different us European and whoever’s technology. The Chinese do not care about patents and therefore are not limited to usage.Built on the shoulders of...
that in 2050 when China GDP will be 4 times the US, the US will be to China as UK is to US today. The process is started and goes exponentially with 7% growth differences per year.
China middle class and businesses -- growing and strongly supported
US middle class and businesses -- too expensive to support, not needed anymore due to outsourcing, extincting.
The manufacturing and engineering foundation for the latest microprocessors are so massive that it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that this system is based on knockoffs of US designs. (And not the latest ones either.)
I realize that one has to start somewhere, though, so this is likely one of those early steps.
Having the system designed at home also means that it's less likely that foreign intelligence services compromise the system. After all, why do most governments need massive computing power: weapons simulations and cryptology.
According to EE-Times:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4230214/Chinese-processors-power-supercomputer
It might based on DEC Alpha 21164.
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So.. it still mean the triumph of US hardware also???
They have had long enough to steal the designs lol