China's Tianhe-2

smelly_legend · 18 Jun 2013 at 01:55

China has a new super computer

bbc

I wonder how much power it uses and how hot it gets! It seems to be using Ivys and Xeon Phis.

34 Petaflops per second......next gen?

StriderX · 18 Jun 2013 at 01:59

Can it play Crysis though?

Surveyor · 18 Jun 2013 at 02:08

A link that works: China's Tianhe-2 retakes fastest supercomputer crown

bitslice · 18 Jun 2013 at 08:01

Why does anything China do always feel like part of a Bond film?

Evil China builds supercomputer, uses it to haxxor MI5, world in peril :eek:

arknor · 18 Jun 2013 at 08:19

oops wrong thread

Lagmeister · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:17

smelly_legend said:
I wonder how much power it uses and how hot it gets! It seems to be using Ivys and Xeon Phis.

It uses 17808KW more than double the previous top place contender, so not exactly a leap forward, more of a brute force power grab

http://www.top500.org/list/2013/06/

Gilly · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:22

We've been bumped to fourth!

Soundood · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:25

17808KW 34 Petaflops per second brute force attack haxxor Tianhe-2 super dooper computer

smelly_legend · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:33

Lagmeister said:
It uses 17808KW more than double the previous top place contender, so not exactly a leap forward, more of a brute force power grab

http://www.top500.org/list/2013/06/

That thing is a monster!

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:35

And I pretended to know what any of this meant :cool:

Cosimo · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:40

[FnG]magnolia;24472367 said:
And I pretended to know what any of this meant

It's cool not to understand 17808KW 34 Petaflops.

smelly_legend · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:56

The last time I made one flop I had a very bad hangover, never mind 34 petaflops.

Lagmeister · 18 Jun 2013 at 12:02

Well if my back of an envelope calculations are correct (which they rarely are) it would cost around 2.3 grand an hour to run based on average power costs here

eatcustard · 18 Jun 2013 at 12:29

It uses a 610GT Nvidia G card

monkeys · 18 Jun 2013 at 12:35

LOL plenty of scope of me snooping on you snooping on me double fast snooping on him

Pixel · 18 Jun 2013 at 12:41

bitslice said:
Why does anything China do always feel like part of a Bond film?

Evil China builds supercomputer, uses it to haxxor MI5, world in peril

Because that's the way the media wants you to perceive them.

China is the new Russia, bring on Cold War 2.

Ceryndrion · 18 Jun 2013 at 13:15

So, 6 times as many cores, for a performance that is only double that of the #2.. unless there is a real problem in scaling, there's something not quite right there..

Gazanimal · 18 Jun 2013 at 17:49

Best quote from the article

The project was sponsored by the Chinese government's 863 High Technology Programme - an effort to make the country's hi-tech industries more competitive and less dependent on overseas rivals.

Like **** it is. Just like the Russians and the US used to out do each other all the time, now the Chinese are doing it.

Malevolence · 18 Jun 2013 at 17:54

Which existing super-computer did they steal the plans for and copy?

Dj_Jestar · 18 Jun 2013 at 17:55

17808KW ?!

That's 0.017808 GIGAWATTS!

It's also 1/674th of the power of the Space Shuttle Launch, or 23,881 horsepower.