Nvidia Powers China to Get Fastest Supercomputer

[gm0n3y]

While I'm a computer enthusiast, I'd prefer if nations would continue the space race rather than start a super computer race.

 

[dennisburke]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]wow...7000 nvidia tesla gpus have as much power as 50,000 cpus, very impressive[/citation]


7,168 GPU's + 14,336 CPU's = 21,504 Processors = (maybe)50,000 CPU's



[citation][nom]danwat1234[/nom]Well, this supercomputer has 2.507 PFlops of computational power, while the DC project; Folding@home has the power of something over 5PFlops (As of Feb 18th 2009)Distributed Computing for the win!I wonder how quickly we could cure cancer if these supercomputers were all Folding...[/citation]


Interesting point...would be interesting to know how many MW's are being used to run the Folding@home network.



[citation][nom]mianmian[/nom]Each Tesla M2050 has a TDP of 225W; each Xeon X5670 has a TDP of 95W.That's 3.0 MW for the CPU+GPU only....[/citation]


(7,168 x 225W) + (14,336 x 95W) = 2,974,720W > 2.97MW

50,000 x 95W = 4,750,000W > 4.75MW

 

[carlos umakartos]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is being deployed for military uses such as decryption and electronic warfare knowing how dirty China plays without wanting to fire a bullet at least not on its own but who knows they are supplying and funding North Korea for yet another proxy war.

Exactly. Also designing new generation of stealth fighters, more stealth submarines, improved ballistic missiles and more. If just one thing is sure, they won't be using it for weather modeling or climate change simulations. There is something wrong with the world if nVidia can publicly praise them self on taking part on this project. It's like helping Hitler to develop nuke. If I was nVidia's PR I would keep quiet about this one.

 

[scrumworks]

Fastest supercomputer or hottest sauna?

 

[bv90andy]

I don't think China should have super computers... I'm 100% sure they made it only to hack SSL encryptions.

 

[Sabiancym]

But can it....oh wait, yes it can. Nice haha.

 

[millerm84]

[citation][nom]carlos umakartos[/nom]Exactly. Also designing new generation of stealth fighters, more stealth submarines, improved ballistic missiles and more. If just one thing is sure, they won't be using it for weather modeling or climate change simulations. There is something wrong with the world if nVidia can publicly praise them self on taking part on this project. It's like helping Hitler to develop nuke. If I was nVidia's PR I would keep quiet about this one.[/quote][/citation]

nVidia is proud of what their innovation is capable of not necessarily of who was the first to utilize it. The average Joe glazes over when you use words like "petaflop" and "massively parallel GPUs". The average Joe votes for people that pander to the things he understands, and because of this there is a lack of DoD spending for super computers because average Joe wants new planes and missiles not computers. I have no doubt that this machine will be used to infiltrate American and other NATO defense and infrastructure systems, however, it isn't nVidia's fault that this computer belongs to China and not the US. We are at peace with China, we are China's number one export, and we owe China so much money that the only reason they would ever attack us is if we defaulted on one of those muilti-billion dollar loans. China is not our enemy but our co-dependent rival who we hand our balls to every time we borrow from them.

 

[carlos umakartos]

Sure it can... With 80% of know how gathered by reverse engineering and espionage. Renaming 20% falls on nVidia contribution: Congrats Nvidia![citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]But can it....oh wait, yes it can. Nice haha.[/citation]

 

[carlos umakartos]

I understand that. Certain Mr. Lenin said once that: “Capitalist is the person who will sell you the noose on which you will hang him.” Once I read that British companies were selling rubber and cooper to krauts even few hours after UK declared war on Germany. Innovation is great thing but nobody should be proud for helping totalitarian regime (that is just stone-throw from complete dictatorship) in obtaining such powerful tools like supercomputers. That's shortsighted and mad and the madness will continue, no doubts. I can't wait to read news about Arianespace helping to improve reach of North Korean ballistic missiles to North American continent. I'm sure the only thing they'll be proud of is the innovative side of the story. To bad so sad... [citation][nom]carlos umakartos[/nom]Sure it can... With 80% of know how gathered by reverse engineering and espionage. Renaming 20% falls on nVidia contribution: Congrats Nvidia![/citation]

 

[carlos umakartos]

Sorry I meant to quote millerm84.

 

[Arxos50]

I fail to see the purpose of this when you can't watch porn on it.

 

[soundping]

The one thing about Chinese Supercomputers is 15 minutes after using it you what more.

 

[Mikez]

[citation][nom]hunter315[/nom]The computer only consumes 4.04 MW of power, but how much does the cooling system need to get that much heat out of the room, and people were worried about cars contributing to global warming.[/citation]
Yes, but the CPUs do not release toxins into our atmosphere, and so,they do not really need to worry so much because it's the toxins that are ruining it. And besides, with all that space in there, they can at least fit about 50 industrial sir-conditioning units in there.

 

[youssef 2010]

IMPRESSIVE

 

[Guest]

A megawatt is not an amount, it is a rate.

It should read “the difference is enough to provide electricity to over 5000 homes.”