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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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 the first No. 1 supercomputer system that is completely based on homegrown 
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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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Engineering & Technology using entirely Chinese-designed 
processors.  </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 
manage and coordinate operations in the 40,960 computing modules, which 
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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 
halt Chinese supercomputing).<br />
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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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 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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