Thursday 16 October 2014

Tianhe-2

Tianhe-2 is a powerful supercomputer which required a team of 1,300 scientists and engineers from China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) to develop and manufacture  it. Tianhe-2 able to perform 33,860 trillion calculations per second. One hour of these calculations is the equivalent of 1,000 years of difficult sums by 1.3 billion. Tianhe-2 is nearly twice as fast as the second-fastest computer which is the United States’ Cray Titan.



Why the Tianhe-2 is at the top of the list:

 •Cores: 3,120,000
 •Linpack Performance (Rmax): 33,862.7 TFlop/s
 •Theoretical Peak (Rpeak): 54,902.4 TFlop/s
 •Power: 17,808.00 kW
 •Memory: 1,024,000 GB
 •Interconnect: TH Express-2
 •Operating System: Kylin Linux
 •Compiler: icc
 •Math Library: Intel MKL-11.0.0
 •MPI: MPICH2 with a customized GLEX Channel

Architecture


Tianhe-2 will be used for simulation, medical research, computational fluid dynamics and chemistry projects.



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