Supercomputing in China

The People's Republic of China operates a cardinal of supercomputer centers which accept captivated apple annal in speed.1

The origins of these centers go aback to 1989, back the State Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission and the Apple Bank accordingly launched a activity to advance networking and supercomputer accessories in China. In accession to arrangement facilities, the activity included three supercomputer centers.2 According to assistant Jack Dongarra, the Chinese are authoritative a abysmal charge to supercomputing.1

Progress

The advance of supercomputing in China in the aboriginal allotment of the 21st aeon has been dramatic, in that it placed 51st in June 2003, again 14th in November 2003 and 10th in June 2004 and again 5th during 2005.4 By mid-2010 it had accomplished the 2nd atom and at the end of 2010 the top spot.

To date, Chinese supercomputers accept acclimated "off the shelf" processors, e.g. Tianhe-1 uses bags of Intel and Nvidia chips, and uses the Linux operating arrangement which is accessible antecedent software. However, to abstain accessible approaching technology embargo restrictions, the Chinese are developing their own processors such as the Loongson, a MIPS blazon processor.41

According to the MIT Technology Review, the Loongson processor will ability the Dawning supercomputers by 2012, bearing a band of absolutely Chinese fabricated supercomputers that ability petaflop speeds.5

Supercomputing centers

Tianjin

The National Supercomputing Centermost in Tianjin is one of the capital centers. It houses the Tianhe-I supercomputer which in October 2010 became the top acceleration almanac holder in the apple by consistently operating at 2.507 petaflops. The Tianjin Computer Institute had been alive as far aback as 1984 back it developed the 16-bit TQ-0671 microcomputer system.6 A bartering associate of the Tianjin centermost had ahead fabricated the PHPC100 claimed supercomputer in 2008 which was about alert the admeasurement of a accustomed desktop computer, but had 40 times the speed. In 2010 a additional bearing archetypal was released.7

edit Beijing

The Supercomputing Centermost of the China Academy of Sciences (SCCAS) provides bookish abutment functions to the National Centers.8

Shenzhen

The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen houses the additional fastest apparatus in China, and the third fastest in the world.9 In May 2010 the Nebulae computer in Shenzhen placed additional on the Top 500 supercomputer list, afterwards the Cray computer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.10

edit Shanghai

The Shanghai Supercomputer Center operates the Magic Cube supercomputer that runs at 230 teraflops, decidedly beneath the Tianhe-I speed.1112

edit Changsha

Foundations for a fresh above annex of the National Supercomputing Center (国家超级计算中心 Guójiā Chāojíjìsuàn Zhōngxīn) were laid in Changsha on 28 November 2010.13

edit See also.