It's called Tianhe-2 the new Super-Computer assembled in
China may soon climb the famous list of the Top 500 , finishing in first place
directly with large margin on the second. Tianhe-2, which it did talk about
last year when he was still in the planning stage, will be 40 times faster than
its predecessor (Tianhe-1) and, according to initial estimates, 74% faster than
current Titan (obviously made in the USA) and that uses Nvidia Tesla K20x.
The Chinese obviously are struggling to the first place and
this does not surprise us that much 3 of the top 4 positions are just occupied
by the United States .
For the occasion, the Asian engineers have opted for a
cluster of Ivy Bridge U.S.
is currently in the lead with a peak of 17.6 petaflops, but Tianhe-2 is
expected to be a well- 30.65 petaflops , in short, an unprecedented power!
The current standings of the Top 500 will be released next
week, we'll see if Tianhe-2 will be included in ranking or postponed until the
next revision (November), although now it is just time.
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