Nvidia Powers China to Get Fastest Supercomputer
Yes, it can.
Hopefully the battle of which nation has the fastest supercomputer will become the new space race, though we doubt that there will be as much public interest this time around.
China is now home to the world's fastest supercomputer (30 percent faster than the best in the U.S.), and it's partially thanks to Nvidia.
Revealed at HPC 2010 China is the new supercomputer called Tianhe-1A, which has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest system in China and in the world today.
Tianhe-1A couples massively parallel GPUs with multi-core CPUs, using 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs. Nvidia is proud of its GPU contribution as it would require more than 50,000 CPUs and twice as much floor space to deliver the same performance using CPUs alone.
More importantly, a 2.507 petaflop system built entirely with CPUs would consume more than 12 megawatts. Thanks to the use of GPUs in a heterogeneous computing environment, Tianhe-1A consumes only 4.04 megawatts, making it 3 times more power efficient -- the difference in power consumption is enough to provide electricity to over 5000 homes for a year.
Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China. The system is housed at National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin and is already fully operational.
"The performance and efficiency of Tianhe-1A was simply not possible without GPUs," said Guangming Liu, chief of National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin. "The scientific research that is now possible with a system of this scale is almost without limits; we could not be more pleased with the results."
The Tianhe-1A supercomputer will be operated as an open access system to use for large scale scientific computations.
"GPUs are redefining high performance computing," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "With the Tianhe-1A, GPUs now power two of the top three fastest computers in the world today. These GPU supercomputers are essential tools for scientists looking to turbocharge their rate of discovery."
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Although I am sure it is low for a supercomputer of this caliber, this line always cracks me up:
"consumes only 4.04 megawatts"
I don't think I could ever call 4.04 MW "only".
Bleh china who cares..google will just create their own and be like suck it china
Great. Now let's build something 60% faster here in the USA.
So.. when are we going to see some benchmarks?
"for scientists looking to turbocharge their rate of discovery."
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.
wow...7000 nvidia tesla gpus have as much power as 50,000 cpus, very impressive
I would guess it has a 10000000 thousand ton air conditioner for cooling.
"Yes, it can."
I loled
"Yes, it can."I loled
Me too haha!
What do they use it for?
It will be used not for finding or sharing information, but for squashing what it deems counter productive to the govt's agenda.
What do they use it for?
Definitely not to run Metro 2033 at 50000x50000.
What do they use it for?
Well, since it "only" uses 4.04MW, I would say heating the entire city of Tianjin.
I think they just wanted to say they have the fastest computer, the scientific research was just a side effect
I recall reading an article on here not too long ago about an upcoming supercomputer in Japan that will break 10 petaflops. So yeah, this one in China is gonna beat the next fastest by only 30%? This one will beat theirs by 300%. I think it's just gonna be called "K" or something lame like that.
Yea Yea, Thats cool and all But! Can it Run Crysis? Probably Not.
LOL!
but....
can it play crysis?
lol I wonder what kind of porn you could watch on that thing
lol I wonder what kind of porn you could watch on that thing
None. Its in China. No porn for you!
I am so sick of Communists. I think its time to purge the reds!
but....can it play crysis?
Aww, you beat me to it. LOL
Any wild guesses which core has a bug in it?
** Add to Cart ** Wonder what the finance plan is for one of those?
Aww, you beat me to it. LOL
You were all beaten to it by Marcus.
I recall reading an article on here not too long ago about an upcoming supercomputer in Japan that will break 10 petaflops. So yeah, this one in China is gonna beat the next fastest by only 30%? This one will beat theirs by 300%. I think it's just gonna be called "K" or something lame like that.
I remember reading an artical on this one. They planned to use ATI cards to start, until they could build their own version, which made me wonder if they plan to just make a knock off version of the cards.
"Yes it Can" , I started checking all the comments to see if anyone had asked "can it play Crysis......
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After all the comments and articles, yes it can , has now become synonymous with the question " Can it Play Crysis?"
So I lolled my A off too.....
Now we'll all know what's going to cause the accelerated race towards the which nation melts the polar ice caps first.....
And now we know where the next Hollywood big blockbuster multi zillion dollar special effects movie is going to have itself worked on.....
Why don't they just give them the money and forget all the farce.....
Outsourcing cheap and domestic layoff's.... another addon for them at the price of what?
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...
Will it last.
what's it for?
Sweet, so they'll have the world's fastest computer blocked from more websites than my world's slowest computer. Sure they can crunch data a lot faster than me, but hell I can access more of it than them.