China's Super Computer is an Intel/AMD Hybrid

[TheFace]

This is pretty powerful for a goldfarming operation..

 

[sslazio77]

Is it the Godzilla of the computer industry? Godzilla is Japanese? Who the hell wrote this article, wut an idiot...

 

[ricdiculus]

Damn, seven thumbs down? Tough room. ok then, how 'bout this.

The answer 42
The question? The ultimate question? Oh tell us, oh deep thought.

Any better?

 

[DalaiLamar]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]I wonder how this will rank up with IBM's Road Runner and the next gen (comming up) IBM Sequoia.IBM Sequoia is said to be able to do 20 PFLOPS: http://gizmodo.com/5145315/ibm-seq [...] s-combinedShould be interesting.PS: Any one willing to bet the Chinese are going to use this to research anti-matter weapons?[/citation]


They need the IBM RoadRunner to do that.

 

[xaira]

boo hoo nvidia, fermi might be a monster, but amd has this huge advert saying buy me, buy me.

 

[michaelahess]

[citation][nom]sslazio77[/nom]Is it the Godzilla of the computer industry? Godzilla is Japanese? Who the hell wrote this article, wut an idiot...[/citation]

Um, Kevin, duh.....

 

[enyceckk101]

Ati + Intel = Big bang

New super mega computer

 

[christop]

That's hardcore!!! Wait multi core..

 

[Amen2That]

Bahhh! My computer is soooo much faster and flexible. On top of that it doesn't need it's own power plant to run, only 2 power cells for 120 years of operation. It uses "a neural-net processor... a [lourning] computer..." the more interactions it has with humans, the more it luorns.

 

[croc]

[citation][nom]cah027[/nom]Wow.! I wonder how it compares to the number 1 supercomputer![/citation]


Very well, depending on how far over 1 petaflop it can actually go. At this point I'd expect it to rank well towards toe top 5 of the top500.org list this November. Interesting concept, using GPU's as well as CPU's for computational speed. I look forward to the November list, as well as further details of how well this works in practice.

 

[anamaniac]

If China can enter the game making powerful processors that eventually hit desktops, I'll be more than happy. They'd be able to make them a hell of a lot cheaper.
Too bad IBM doesn't make PowerPC for the desktop anymore... sure their line for Macs were awful, but the 3GHz tri-core with HyperTransport (well, the equivalent, because they call it something different) in the Xbox 360 was pretty ahead of its time.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Is this about bragging rights or is someone going to do something useful with the computer?

 

[blasterth]

Please when you write paragraphs like the first of this news, you should do a little more than copy/paste and at least know how to do multiplications.
This Super Computer (SC) can do 1'000'000 GFLOPS (= 1 PFLOPS), my core i7 can do 70 GFLOPS. The performance ratio is 1'000'000/70 = 14'286 +/-.
So for a computation that this SC takes 1 second to complete my PC would take 4h.
If my PC takes 160 years to do a calculation this SC will need 4 days for doing the same computation.

 

[tester24]

"After it is installed in Tianjin, we plan to add hundreds or thousands of China-made CPUs to the machine and improve its performance." Are they sure it will "improve" performance? Not too many things Chinese made I would consider an improvement.

And I do differentiate the difference between home built and just built. But like most things Chinese it's probably a copy of someone's else work that they wont have to pay rights to.

 

[tester24]

[citation][nom]cybrcatter[/nom]China is dead serious about making every product they need within its own borders.What's crazier than the notion that they really want to have a completely self contained, non-dependent economy, is the fact that they have the manpower and resources to actually do it.[/citation]

It's like a bigger version of the great wall.

 

[lordcrazex]

if the Chinese can build it, others can do just as good too

 

[nforce4max]

It is a shame that nothing is hardly made in the US due to globalist greed. Take a look at Detroit that is ware many of the big cities of the US are heading.

 

[Upendra09]

it would be even faster with a GPGPU to take load of the CPU

 

[cookoy]

"China-made" CPUs? Are these Chinese designed, home-grown CPUs? First time I've read about it. Tom's HW should get 1 and benchmark it to see how it perform.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]"China-made" CPUs? Are these Chinese designed, home-grown CPUs? First time I've read about it. Tom's HW should get 1 and benchmark it to see how it perform.[/citation]
I'm sure it's a clone CPU. Now whether they're licensing from a company like ARM or whether they're building illegal x86 clones, hard to say.[citation][nom]Upendra09[/nom]it would be even faster with a GPGPU to take load of the CPU[/citation]Son, have you ever thought of signing up for the Special Olympics?

 

[hennnry]

Poeple, do you guys know that 1/3 of almost all US engineers and scientists are either Indian or Chinese? 1/3 of all IT professions are foreigners? Do you know most of ALL of the electronics are manufactured outside of USA? Do you know that almost ALL big bridges currently being built or are going to be built are designed by Chinese companies?

China, or India, or many other countries couldn't do CPU not because they aren't smart enough to do so, it was simply because it was not econmical to do so. But if they deem neccessary to design and make one without a consideration of economic cost, they can make one.

Heck, they produced Nuclear bomb, space rockets, and you think they can't make a CPU....

 

[climber]

The fact that this new super computer is using so many GPU's makes me think that indeed they are using them for GPU based floating point acceleration, probably using OpenCL for the firestream processors. Then again they could be 2900 class Radeons?

 

[falchard]

Cost verse performance ratio still worse then full AMD based machines. Roadrunner, 70% more performance at 42% the cost. Jaguar, 40% more performance at 18% the cost.

I thought the Chinese were suppose to get special deals on electronics.

 

[ti1706]

Time to google the #1 slot.

 

[riparian]

the numbers in this article are WAY OFF- by a multiple in the thousands. No computer sold new today would be within 1000 times as slow as the one they used for their calculation to come up with the "160 years" declaration. They are saying that this computer is 5 billion times faster than a home PC, yet only has 11,000 times more processors... humm....