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.

Source: http://blog.newegg.com/chinas-tianhe-2-worlds-powerful-computer/

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