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Jia Jia, the creepily life-like 'robot goddess'

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<span style="font-size: small;">The female robot has been called a 'robot 
goddess' by her hoards of online fans, and some who met her at a recent 
exhibition were taken aback by her lifelike appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jia Jia 
stood near the entrance of the exhibition hall that hosted this year's 
2016 Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin, in a major port city in North China.</span><br />
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 was dressed in a traditional Chinese outfit, hairstyle, complete with a
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The robot immediately caught the 
attention of passers-by from China and abroad. But what truly impressed 
was not only how lifelike she is, but also how smart she is. Her 
'brain', which is essentially a huge online database, is connected to a 
cloud computing platform that allows her to enhance her ability to 
process emotions <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 life-like cyborg is the brain child of Chen Xiaoping and his colleagues
 at the University of Science and Technology of China, who unveiled the 
technology today in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province.</span></div>
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process emotions and speech as new data is uploaded. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Jia Jia can hold conversations with those who ask her questions and respond in less than a second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Reports said she is also able to make micro-expressions and recognise the facial expressions of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She
 is thought to be one of a kind in China, although in the past few years
 there have been other similar 'smart' bots made by engineers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According
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technologies, with China accounting for more than 25 per cent of global 
industrial robot sales in 2015 -  62,000 of 248,000 units sold worldwide
 last year.</span></div>
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cities of Tianjin and Dalian - in north-eastern China's Liaoning 
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Developed by engineer Chen Xiaoping 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hello
 everyone, I'm Jia Jia. Welcome!' the robot said as it greeted the 
audience at the university's multi-media center in May, reported <a class="" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/15/c_135282841.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Xinhuanet</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
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 'Kejia' that took home first place at the RoboCup championship in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kejia reached a historical mark 8,555 points by showing off its skills of neatly lining up drinks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But Xiaoping's robot goddess doesn't seem like it will be used in any competitions.</span></div>
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people,' Xiaoping explained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He also revealed that Jia Jia was 'priceless' and the team would not consider mass production, yet.  </span></div>
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As HJ-73 antitank missile is outdated due to exposure of the 
missile operator, China has developed its new third-generation portable 
antitank missile HJ-12 (Red Arrow-12).<br />
It is a fire-and-forget missile with infrared imaging guidance, which makes it expensive.<br />
Due to its soft launch system, it can be fired within buildings and 
bunkers and allows its operator time to hide after firing as the missile
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and flame and then gain speed with more smoke and flame to hit its 
target.<br />
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Cozmo, a tiny palm-sized robot that just wants to be your friend

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 Cozmo is a tiny robot equipped with a powerful brain and an ‘emotion 
engine,’ allowing it to create an evolving bond with its human 
companions. The $180 robot reacts to your emotions and remembers the 
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<span id="ext-gen78" style="font-size: small;">It looks like it could be the child of Pixar favourites Wall-E and Eve, but the tiny robot developed by <a class="" href="https://anki.com/en-us" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Anki</a> is real enough to hold in the palm of your hand</span><br />
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he's here to win. Cozmo is a game playing machine (literally). And the 
more you get to know each other, the better it gets as new activities 
and upgrades are unlocked. So whether he’s playing with his Power Cubes 
or challenging you with his favorite games of speed and skill, like 
Quick Tap, Memory Match, and Keepaway, he's always ready for action. 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Cozmo scans his environment constantly, and when he sees a face he knows, his eyes will light up in recognition.</span></div>
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Cozmo doesn’t just move; he gets curious and explores. He doesn’t just 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We’ve
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 in reality what we have are robots that have been used for industrial, 
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 a lead designer of the Batmobile to create a real-life robotic 
personality that can form connections with humans.</span></div>
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Cozmo is a tiny robot equipped with a powerful brain and an ‘emotion engine,’ allowing it to create an evolving bond with its human companions. The $180 robot reacts to your emotions and remembers…

The world's cheapest smartphone finally set to begin shipping later this week

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The Freedom 251 device goes on sale on
 June 30 in an attempt to improve internet access for millions of 
people. The manufacturers were forced to refund over 30,000 orders after
 its website crashed earlier this year. <i>dailymail.co.uk</i><br />
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<span id="ext-gen147" style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 world's cheapest smartphone costing just </span><span id="ext-gen147" style="font-size: 1.2em;">$4 is finally set to begin 
shipping later this week in an attempt to connect poorer regions of 
India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Aiming
 to make internet access affordable to millions of people across the 
country, the Freedom 251 device goes on sale on June 30 and will only be
 available to pre-registered users in India.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Despite
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forced to refund over 30,000 pre-orders and delay shipping after its 
website crashed.</span></div>
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 by Ringing Bells, a technology firm based in Noida, more than 200,000 
devices will be sold during the first phase of delivery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The gadget comes with a four-inch screen, an 8MP rear camera and 3.2MP front-facing camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Users of the phone will have 8GB of storage and 1GB RAM available to them, while a 1.3GHz quad-core processor powers the device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Running
 on Android Lollipop 5.1, the gadget available in either black or white,
 comes pre-installed with Facebook, YouTube, Google Play and WhatsApp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">First
 unveiled in February, the firm's website crashed after seven million 
people registered their interest just hours after it was announced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In a notice to its customers soon after the outage, the company said it was receiving 600,000 hits per second on its website. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In comparison, Google manages only 40,000 search requests in the same time frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 firm was forced to withdraw the product from sale and refunded all of 
the  customers who had paid for the device following scrutiny by 
government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The world's first bendable smartphone made using graphene, which was first developed in Britain, is set to go on sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Made by a company in China, the device's graphene-based screen is so flexible that it can be worn as a chunky bracelet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The revolutionary material combines being both extremely thin – one atom - and strong – 200 times stronger than steel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Graphene
 was first isolated in 2004 by two scientists at The University of 
Manchester, who were subsequently awarded the Nobel prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The phone has been created by a little-known start-up company in China called the Moxi Group, which is based in Chongqing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 seems have stolen a march on much bigger rivals like Samsung of South 
Korea and Apple, who have been working on their own flexible handsets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Moxi says it will ship 100,000 of the devices for the Chinese market this year at a price that is equivalent to £531 ($776).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mohit Goel, CEO of Ringing Bells, told <a class="" href="http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/mobile-tabs/ringing-bells-freedom-251-delivery-for-2-lakh-units-start-june-30-company-to-launch-cheapest-hd-led-tv-2872719/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Indian Express</a>: 'We learned from our mistakes and decided to go silent until we come out with the product.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Now we have a 4-inch, dual-SIM phone ready for delivery. I feel vindicated.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Let us see what can we do to bring about a real liberation of Freedom to all our brothers and sisters.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Once the first phase of delivery is complete, registration will open again for those wishing to buy the handset. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The company was only set-up last year, but have already been caught in a number of controversies surrounding the phone.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A
 patent infringement from Apple regarding some of the built-in app icons
 was filed, while fellow manufacturers Adcom claimed they used their 
devices but masked their logo out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The firm is hoping to squash claims from critics that it would be impossible to produce a phone so cheaply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With
 the manufacturing cost of each phone claimed to be over £40, the firm 
is choosing to use innovative marketing techniques to showcase their 
device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And they are hoping for a large volume of sales to help recover costs from production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Indian Cellular Association (ICA) previously said that a smartphone 
with specifications such as the Freedom 251 device has can not be 
manufactured for that price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although the company never discussed the economics behind their operation, analysts questioned the business model.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tarun
 Pathak, an analyst at Counterpoint Technology Research, said: 'It looks
 like it's highly subsidized by the company and it's not clear how they 
plan to sustain this.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 company is also planning to launch a 32-inch high-definition television
 next month - but not quite as cheap as their smartphones, with a device
 reportedly set to cost £110. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">India
 is Asia's fastest growing smartphone market with 103.6 million 
smartphones sold in 2015. Most Indians still buy cheap smartphones that 
cost less than £150. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Other attempts at cheap engineering in India have not been very successful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A
 laptop costing just £7.50 was announced by the Indian government in 
2008, but ended up costing over £75 by the time it reached the market. <i>dailymail</i></span></div>
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Recently there has been report on the Internet that two Y-20 large 
transport aircrafts have been delivered to Chinese military. According 
to the report, a delivery ceremony was held in the afternoon of June 15 
at a certain test flight center of the Aviation Industry Corporation of 
China.<br />
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Unlike Chinese navy, Chinese air force seldom makes public of its 
acquisition of new equipment; therefore, there has been no official news
 to confirm the report.<br />
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An anonymous military expert refuses to comment on the report but 
says it is time for the Y-20 project to have some outcome though there 
must be further improvement for Y-20 to use China’s homegrown engines 
and add small wings at the ends of its wings to reduce drag. <br />

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The Underwater Great Wall may be centered around stationary 
sensors on the ocean bed, but autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles 
will be a critical enabler in not just tracking enemy submarines, but 
finding them.  Also note the large AUV's reflection on the display 
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One area where unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and 
unmanned surface vehicles (USV) would make a splash is in Chinese 
anti-submarine warfare (ASW) efforts.<br />
The China State 
Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), which builds virtually all PLAN 
warships, has proposed an "Underwater Great Wall" of sensors, positioned
 on the seabed floor, to listen for enemy submarines. (The US had a 
similar system on the Atlantic Ocean floor to listen for Soviet 
submarines.) Such underwater listening posts may already have been 
installed near the giant PLAN base at Sanya, Hainan Island in the South 
China Sea. On a more optimistic note, CSSC suggested that an Underwater 
Great Wall would be useful for warning against natural disasters like 
tsunami, and could be used to collect research data on marine life and 
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Future Chinese anti-submarine warfare systems will rely on a wide
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acoustic (and other types of) sensors installed on the ocean floor.</div>
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In addition to active and passive sensors located up to 
3,000 meters underwater, the Underwater Great Wall will be supported by a
 wide range of USVs. Chinese researchers intend that these autonomous 
USVs will be able to work in conjunction with the seabed sensor picket 
line, and autonomously locate and track enemy submarines.<br />
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The  Semi-Autonomous Robotic Vehicle can be launched from torpedo
 tubes and racks on submarines, surface ships, missiles and aircraft, 
which would extend the situational awareness of Chinese submarines, 
while reducing risk from hostile ASW forces.</div>
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For example, one USV is the torpedo shaped 
Semi-Autonomous Robotic Vehicle (SARV). It has ports on its front for 
sensor installation, and a dorsal (top) side detachable sensor pod 
(possibly passive sonar). It can be launched out of a submarine's 
torpedo tube, enabling it to act as a force multiplier for Chinese 
submarines, in addition to its underwater great wall duties.<br />
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Double Bodied UUV</div>
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This innovative double bodied unmanned underwater vehicle allows 
for more sensitive sensors (especially passive sonar to listen for other
 submarines) in the smaller upper body, and a lighter mass compared to a
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Another type of USV are dual bodied USVs. The main 
propulsion hull has another, smaller hull attached to its top, which can
 carry a wide range of sensitive ASW equipment (the smaller hull can 
even come with its own sensor pods). Additionally, there are more 
conventional underwater gliders which manipulate their buoyancy and 
wings in order to glide between seawater layers of different temperature
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This large AUV, similar to the USN's LDUUV, is used for long term
 autonomous missions; its size allows for it to carry modular payloads 
of sensors, mine warfare and ASW.</div>
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The 5-10 ton Autonomous Robotic Vehicle (ARV), which is 
similar to USN's LDUUV in size and shape, is intended for long endurance
 missions and hauling larger payloads than your average torpedo-like 
UUV.  The ARV can be deployed submarines and surface ships, and likely 
has a modular payload capacity for surveillance, intelligence 
collection, mine countermeasure and anti-submarine warfare missions.<br />
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Unmanned Underwater Vehicles</div>
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To fully unlock the potential of UUVs, Chinese scientists
 will have to master autonomous intelligence for these underwater 
robots, not just individually but also to teach them to 'swarm', in 
working together with one another with little or no human oversight, as 
well as with other naval platforms.  Other technologies would include 
new forms of underwater communication and datalink<br />
 technologies, as well
 as precise navigation systems and multiple sensor payloads.<br />
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A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world's fastest computers for the seventh straight year — and for the first time the winner uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology. The Sunway TaihuLight, pictured, can run quadrillions of calculations per second, achieves 93 Pflops on the Linpack benchmark, and has a peak performance of 125 Pflops.<br />
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The Sunway TaihuLight achieves 93 
Pflops on the Linpack benchmark, and has a peak performance of 125 
Pflops. This is about five times that of Oak Ridge's Titan, which uses 
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Sunway TaihuLight system demonstrates the significant 
progress that China has made in the domain of designing and 
manufacturing large-scale computation systems.</span></div>
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 TaihuLight uses Chinese-developed ShenWei processors, 'ending any 
remaining speculation that China would have to rely on Western 
technology to compete effectively in the upper echelons of 
supercomputing,' TOP500 said in a statement.</span></div>
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    The Taihu Light has three sections; a central network node to 
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Taihu Light has 10,649,600 central processing units (CPU), to achieve a processing 
speed of 93 petaflops; that's 93 quadrillion calculations a second, or 2
 million laptop computers.  Built by the National Research Center of 
Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology, the Sunway Taihulgiht is
 operated at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China.<b> </b></span><br />
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    The Shenwei SW20610 has 260 of these 1.45Ghz CPUs, which are all completely designed and made in China.<br />

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The Sunway TaihuLight's 40,960 Shenwei SW26010  computing
 modules each contain 260 1.45Ghz CPU, which are all entirely designed 
and made in China.  In contrast, the Tianhe 2 used Intel Xeon Phi cores 
for its processors (the ShenWei can thank a bit of its success to a US 
government ban on further Xeon core sales to China that was supposed to 
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    The Sunway Taihu Light is already the world's most powerful 
computer, but is expected to be upgraded with a 33% increase in 
processing power to over 120 petaflops in several years.<br />

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    A look down one of the corridors in the giant room housing the 
Tianhe 2, which has a processing power of 33.86 petaflops (double that 
of its nearest competitor, the Oak Ridge Lab's Titan).  But now it's 
been supplanted by the Sunway TaihuLight, which itself will be beaten in
 2020, when China debuts the world's first exoscale (that's 1,000 
quadrillion calculations per second) supercomputer in 2020.<br />
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Supercomputing is key part of the Chinese government;s 
plan shift to an innovation driven society. China hopes to finish an 
"exascale"1000 petaflop supercomputer in 2020, China already has the 
world's largest installed supercomputing capacity at 211 petaflops out 
of a global installed capacity of 566.7 petaflops.  China also has 167 
of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, according to the globally 
recognized TOP500 list. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Sunway TaihuLight, can run quadrillions of calculations 
per second, achieves 93 Pflops on the Linpack benchmark, and has a peak 
performance of 125 Pflops. </span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen183" style="font-size: small;">The
 second-fastest computer, the Tianhe-2 at the National Supercomputer 
Center in the southern city of Guangzhou, is capable of 33 petaflops. It
 uses chips made by Intel Corp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year's 
champion is the Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center 
in Wuxi, west of Shanghai, according to TOP500.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">The TaihuLight is due to be introduced Tuesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt by the director of the Wuxi center, Guangwen Yang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Announcement marks a new milestone for Chinese supercomputer 
development and a further erosion of past U.S. dominance of the field.</span><span id="ext-gen183" style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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 Besides the direct application of the 
technology, the innovations, experience, and engineering capabilities 
used to design and build supercomputers are likely to be applied to 
other areas of Chinese electronics, including in the consumer, 
industrial, scientific, and military sectors.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its top speed is about five times that of Oak Ridge's Titan, which uses Cray, NVIDIA and Opteron technology.</span></div>
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 this year, China displaced the United States for the first time as the 
country with the most supercomputers in the top 500. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">China had 167 systems and the United States had 165. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Japan was a distant No. 3 with 29 systems.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Among
 countries with the most computers on the top 500 list, Germany was in 
fourth place with 26 systems, France was next with 18, followed by 
Britain with 12.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">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,' the TOP500 organizers said in a statement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
 TOP500 is compiled by Erich Strohmaier of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley 
National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, 
Knoxville, Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 
and Martin Meuer of Prometeus GmbH, a German technology company. Another
 contributor, Hans Meuer of Germany's University of Mannheim, died in 
2014.</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Associated Press</i></div>
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