The Sunway Taihu Light (Shenwei Taihu) is the world’s most powerful super computer built by China. This thing is a real beast. It has around 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system. It can perform upto 125.436 petaflops … according to one report. That’s over 125 quadrillions calculations per second. Crazy!
“A new supercomputer from China has topped the latest list of the world’s most powerful machines. The 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi. At its peak, the computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second.
It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500 which released the new list on Monday.
Its main applications include advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting and big data analytics, wrote Jack Dongarra in a paper about the new machine. It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.
For the first time since the list began, China has overtaken the US with 167 computers in the top 500 while the US has 165.
“Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with none ranked in the top 30, the nation has come further and faster than any other country in the history of supercomputing,” said Top500.
The US has four supercomputers in the top 10 of the Top500 list, while China has two which currently occupy the top two places.”
Source: BBC
