In my country there is a popular saying that when two bulls fight it is the grass that gets hurt. And that has been true in many social economic facets; whenever the west has engaged the east in some form of competition the neutral world has suffered. These have been in many fields from ideological, political to economic and the result has always been the same. Now I know you might be say competition is not fighting and that is a fact, but the saying only uses figurative language and can at times be so dramatic.There is emerging a new confrontational ground for the world’s powerful nations that promises to benefit the less involved nations. This new field of competition is the technological advancement sphere and especially the computer technology. The fiercer this competition gets the better for the whole world I must admit this from the onset.
Today China sits atop the world basking in the glory of its newest technological invention: the Tianhe-2 or fondly referred to as the Milky Way -2, the world’s fastest supercomputer. In a competition pitying the world’s two economic powerhouse’s China against the United States of America, China has once again emerged tops. This is a second time in three years, the last time being November 2010 when the first computer in the Tianhe series, the Tianhe-1, was tested.
The milky way-2 was developed by the National University of Defense Technology in China and its performance tops at 33.86 petaflops per second, a performance that’s puts it at the pole position in the world. The super Tianhe-2 is expected to have a theoretical peak performance of 54.9 petaflops when completed. This supercomputer will be deployed at the National Supercomputer center in Guangzhou, China, by the end of the year according to reports.
Developed two years ahead of schedule, Tianhe-2 is a successor to Tianhe -1n which also placed chine on top of the world in November 2010. The mechanical component of Tianhe-2 is made up of 16,000 nodes, and each has two Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge processors and three Xeon Phi processors giving it a combined total of 3,120,000 computing cores. This makes it more powerful than its predecessor by a large margin yet only two years ago Tienhe-1 was the world’s fastest super computer. The world is indeed advancing technological at a speed only comparable to the speed of light.
According to official reports most of the features of the system were developed in China, that is, the interconnection, operating system, front-end processors and software are mainly Chinese, and only Intel was used for the main compute part. This gives the Chinese people pride in knowing that they not only assembled the world’s fastest supercomputer but they also made most of its parts locally.
This new development now puts the Cray-made Titan computer which performs 17.59 petaflops and is installed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee down to the second place from a short stint at position one. IBM’s Sequoia, installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory also in the U.S .has now to content with third place.
Today China sits atop the world basking in the glory of its newest technological invention: the Tianhe-2 or fondly referred to as the Milky Way -2, the world’s fastest supercomputer. In a competition pitying the world’s two economic powerhouse’s China against the United States of America, China has once again emerged tops. This is a second time in three years, the last time being November 2010 when the first computer in the Tianhe series, the Tianhe-1, was tested.
The milky way-2 was developed by the National University of Defense Technology in China and its performance tops at 33.86 petaflops per second, a performance that’s puts it at the pole position in the world. The super Tianhe-2 is expected to have a theoretical peak performance of 54.9 petaflops when completed. This supercomputer will be deployed at the National Supercomputer center in Guangzhou, China, by the end of the year according to reports.
Developed two years ahead of schedule, Tianhe-2 is a successor to Tianhe -1n which also placed chine on top of the world in November 2010. The mechanical component of Tianhe-2 is made up of 16,000 nodes, and each has two Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge processors and three Xeon Phi processors giving it a combined total of 3,120,000 computing cores. This makes it more powerful than its predecessor by a large margin yet only two years ago Tienhe-1 was the world’s fastest super computer. The world is indeed advancing technological at a speed only comparable to the speed of light.
According to official reports most of the features of the system were developed in China, that is, the interconnection, operating system, front-end processors and software are mainly Chinese, and only Intel was used for the main compute part. This gives the Chinese people pride in knowing that they not only assembled the world’s fastest supercomputer but they also made most of its parts locally.
This new development now puts the Cray-made Titan computer which performs 17.59 petaflops and is installed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee down to the second place from a short stint at position one. IBM’s Sequoia, installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory also in the U.S .has now to content with third place.
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