Re: [ossig] Chinese supercomputer launched

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>]

BTW, if you include all those on the list in www.top500.org and NEC
earth simulator, Dawning 4000L is actually somewhere in number 5. 


On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 21:28, Nan Phin wrote:
> By Staff, CNETAsia
> Monday, March 17 2003 4:16 PM
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> China has launched its first domestic supercomputer, according to the government newspaper the People's Daily.
> 
> The Dawning 4000L computer has been designed to provide more than 3 teraflops of computing power for scientific and other types of
> information processing. It houses 644 Intel processors, 644GB of memory and 100 terabytes of storage. It is believed to run on the
> open-source Linux operating system.
> 
> However other reports say that it pales in comparison to supercomputers from NEC, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which are several times
> more powerful. The Chinese machine is expected to be a lower-cost alternative for domestic universities and scientific institutions.
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> Dr. Sun Ninghui, the dean of the National Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems (NCIC), said was quoted in the People's
> Daily as saying that the device was a milestone for China's high performance super-server industry. It was jointly developed by the
> NCIC and computer maker Dawning Information Industry.
> 
> The machine be upgraded to operate at 6.75 teraflops when equipped with 1,300 processors, said the report.
> 
> In contrast, NEC's Earth Simulator supercomputer consists of over 5,200 processors and 40 teraflops of power. IBM's upcoming Blue
> Gene supercomputers will boast 65,000 processors.
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> best wishes.
> /nan phin
> 
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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