China, which recently ascended to the top of the world's supercomputer powers, said that, by the end of this year, it will not be using foreign processors for its future supercomputers anymore.
Instead, the country intends to rely on its own Loongson series of processing cores.
The upcoming Dawning 6000 supercomputer is expected to use 10,000 of these chips to achieve an estimated 1 Petaflop of processing performance. While it is a national priority to use its own processors, scientists admitted that it is difficult at this time to exploit the full potential of the chips as there aren't programmers who can squeeze every bit of horsepower out of them.
China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, currently the world's fastest supercomputer, uses a total of 186,368 cores and achieves a peak performance of 4.7 PFlops. The systems uses Intel Xeon X5670 CPUs as well as Nvidia Tesla GPUs.
China expects that it will take at least 10 years until the chips will be able to supply the domestic market. In 20 years, China wants to compete with companies such as Intel here in the U.S.
Korea came out of one party political system in the 90's and are now major hi tech producers.
Gunpowder, eyeglasses, the crankshaft (used to mill rice into flour), advanced astronomy, first printing press, etc were all developed in China long before the land mass we know as America was even colonized by Europeans.
Of all the Ancient Civilizations; China is the only one left...4000 plus years of contiguous history as a nation.
In a short few years the Chinese already developed the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Before ignorant comments like, so what they do it by copying etc...so did the Europeans and Americans alike. Remember the West used RACIAL Slave labor to provide free labor to sustain their industrial economies.
Just because you forgot that Europe became illiterate and went into the dark ages does not mean they "INVENTED" all the things you claim. Remember the west FORGOT all the things the ROMANS invented...cause of the DARK AGES. LET ALONE 3500 years of advanced tech in the EAST where people were literate.
At the age of 16 many Chinese already have memorized over 7000 plus Chinese Characters...which means they got a good method of developing memory...which may mean they pick things up quicker? Maybe huh? Many are multilingual, which means they can sell their products to many countries and other markets...wait
wait...maybe being multilingual and having a good memory is a bit like being able to think and speak in two or more languages... Like dual booting? Hyperthreading? lol...ok...enough with the nerd stuff, but you get it right?
There is also an expression to explain many of the ignorant responses here...
You feel you know it all since of the lack of Asian History taught in U.S. schools. Lying by omission is a nice way of manipulation by the way. U.S. Citizens fill in the rest with emotion and ignorance.
It is true most people who are quick to judge with harsh words have never even ventured into anything beyond their comfort zone...its like the expression by the Japanese.
What does the frog in the pond know of the ocean~