Japan's new Super Computer rips China's a new one...

[DrPop]

http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3286946/japan-builds-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer/

Very...very...very...(did I mention EXTREMELY) nice if we could get one of these for our team someday!

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3286946/japan-builds-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer/

Very...very...very...(did I mention EXTREMELY) nice if we could get one of these for our team someday!

This one?

[trigggl]

http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3286946/japan-builds-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer/

Very...very...very...(did I mention EXTREMELY) nice if we could get one of these for our team someday!

I think you could cure cancer, map the entire Milkyway (and Andromeda while you're at it), find alien life on the other side of the universe and find a prime number so large that it reaches back around to zero with that. I think even Steve* would have trouble keeping up with it.

[Duke of Buckingham]

A 1985 supercomputer Cray-2


Tianhe-1 (TH-1) Supercomputer

Background:
* the Project of High Performance Computer and Grid Service Environment
* Mainframe of the National SuperComputer Center in Tianjin (NSCC-TJ)
* The key node of the National Grid of China
Overview of System:
* Hybrid architecture with heterogeneous processors
* 6144 Intel Xeon CPUs and 5120 AMD GPUs
* 98TB memory totally
* Point-to-Point communication bandwidth is 40Gbps
* Capacity of I/O storage system is 1PB
* The hardware system consists of compute nodes, operation nodes, interconnection subsystem, I/O storage subsystem and the monitoring and diagnosis subsystem
* The software system consists of operating system, compiling system, resource management subsystem and the development kit for parallel programming
Configuration of System:
Compute node:
* 2560 compute nodes totally
* Each compute node is equipped with 2 Intel Xeon EP CPUs (4 cores) , 1 AMD ATI Radeon 4870x2 (2GPUs, including 1600 Stream Processing Units - SPUs), and 32GB memory
Operation node:
* 512 operation nodes totally
* Each operation node is equipped with 2 Intel Xeon CPUs (4 cores) and 32GB memory
Interconnection subsystem:
* Infiniband QDR
* The point-to-point communication bandwidth is 40Gbps and the MPI latency is 1.2us
I/O storage subsystem:
* Lustre parallel file system
* 64 I/O storage nodes (OST)
* 2 Meta Data Servers (MDS)
* Total I/O storage capacity is 1PB
Operating system:
* Linux operating system
* Supporting virtualization computing environment and isolation for security
Compiling system:
* Supporting C/C++,Fortran77/90/95,Java
* Supporting OpenMP and MPI
* Providing a programming framework for hybrid architecture, which supports adaptive task partition and steaming data access
Resource management subsystem:
* Providing a uniform view of heterogeneous compute resources in TH-1
* Supporting multiple policies for task scheduling and resource allocation
* Supporting multi-level Checkpoint/Restart
Development kit for parallel programming:
* Integrated Development Environment
* Multiple debugging tools
* Low-overhead performance analyzing tools
LINPACK performance:
* Peak performance is 1.206 PFlops, and LINPACK performance is 563.1 TFlops
Applications:
* Petroleum exploration
* Biological medicine research
* Simulation of large aircraft design
* Remote sensing data processing
* Data analyzing of financial engineering
* Simulation of environment research

[John P. Myers]

Damn. If my computer was only 5x more powerful, i could make the top 500 list

[Maxwell]

Damn. If my computer was only 5x more powerful, i could make the top 500 list

And this, ladies and gentlemen, marks the point in time where JPM's evil genius first began...

[Clank [MM]]

PPPFFFFTTTTTT, I got that beat, juuuust haaave to warrrrm this thiiiinng up.