China launched supercomputer Tianhe, the 4th fastest ever

China has gradually become not only a world factory, but also one of the world's intellectual and scientific centers. No coincidence that the PRC was created and launched one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world with a symbolic name Tianhe (Milky Way). Of course, this is not the fastest computer in our galaxy, but its capabilities are impressive - Tianhe has a speed of 563.1 teraflops, and its ability to reach the peak performance of 1.2 petaflops.

With such indicators Tianhe new supercomputer was the fastest computing system in China and is able to claim fourth place in the current rating of 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. China National University of Defense Technology (National University of Defense Technology), which was developed Tianhe, argues that the work that this system can be completed within one day of a conventional computer with dual-core processor will take about 160 years.

Computational complex Tianhe weighs 155 tons and covers an area of about one thousand square meters. It is built on the basis of several thousands of Intel Xeon processors and graphics chips AMD, including a set of the Radeon HD 4870 X2. By the way, it is the massive use of ATI graphics, among other things, allowed supercomputer to achieve such high performance. At the same time, Tianhe is the fifth energy supercomputer in the world.

In addition, the creators of Tianhe going to improve its supercomputer, including in its composition thousands of CPU, developed by Chinese experts. This will allow the system to exceed the threshold performance of 800 teraflops.