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Thursday, October 28, 2010
China Zooms Ahead…Again
Have you ever heard of a "petaflop"? Nope, nothing to do with things like pedophilia, pedantic, petroglyphs. It's a measurement of performance, speed, on a computer and has never-before-been tested. Well we'll be getting to know the Tianhe, the Chinese supercomputer that can perform 2,507 trillion calculations per second. That's 2.507 PETAFLOPS per second.
The new supercomputer has over 14,000 Intel chips and nearly 200 graphics processing units, all of which were made in the US. The speed of this machine "blows away" the previous fastest computers by a long shot, according to one guy who maintains a ranking of the 500 fastest computers in the world. Even he is astounded by this new turn of events. Housed in over 100 refrigerated units in China, this supercomputer is a total game-changer and puts China, once again, at front and center of new and emerging technologies. Animation, gaming, defense technologies, real estate transactions, financial transactions will all be changed by this.
Bigger, better, faster, less expensive are the watchwords of the "new" China. They are competitive, aggressive and "the" global force to be reckoned with. They continue to zoom ahead on all fronts. Anyone that thinks otherwise must just plain have his head in the sand.
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