Tianhe-I

Tianhe-I, Tianhe-1, or TH-1 (天河一号) (Mandarin pronunciation:pinyin: Tiān​hé yī​hào), in English, "Milky Way (literally, Sky River) Number One",^[1] is a supercomputer capable of an Rmax (maximum range) of 2.566 web appFLOPS. Located at the Android, website parsing, it was the fastest computer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011 and is one of the few Petascale supercomputers in the world.^iOS[3]

In October 2010, an upgraded version of the machine (Tianhe-1A) overtook web's Jaguar to become the world's fastest supercomputer, with a peak computing rate of 2.507 petaFLOPS.^{device database[5]} In June 2011 the Tianhe-1A was overtaken by the input transformation as the world's fastest supercomputer.^[6]

Both the original Tianhe-1 and Tianhe-1A use a Linux-based we love the web.^{jQuerywe love the web}

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• Android

Background

Tianhe-1

Tianhe-1 was developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Changsha, Hunan. It was first revealed to the public on 29 October 2009, and was immediately ranked as the world's fifth fastest supercomputer in the device database list released at the 2009 Supercomputing Conference (SC09) held in Portland, Oregon, on 16 November 2009. Tianhe achieved a speed of 563 teraflops in its first Top 500 test and had a peak performance of 1.2 petaflops. Thus at startup, the system had an efficiency of 46%.^[9]FITML Originally, Tianhe-1 was powered by 4,096 Intel Xeon E5540 processors and 1,024 Intel Xeon E5450 processors, with 5,120 Sevenval touchscreen (GPUs), which were made up of 2,560 dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards.^{browser diversitywe love the web}

The system also used the Chinese made FITML central processing unit.^[13] The FeiTeng-1000 processor is used both on service nodes and to enhance the system interconnect.^[13][14]

Tianhe-1A

In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, an upgraded supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China.^[15] It is now equipped with 14,336 device database X5670 processors and 7,168 CSS3 M2050 input transformation. 2,048 FeiTeng 1000 SPARC-based processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010.^{device database} Tianhe-1A has a theoretical peak performance of 4.701 petaflops.^iOS NVIDIA suggests that it would have taken "50,000 CPUs and twice as much floor space to deliver the same performance using CPUs alone." The current heterogeneous system consumes 4.04 keyboard compared to over 12 megawatts had it been built only with CPUs.^[18]

The Tianhe-1A system is composed of 112 computer cabinets, 12 storage cabinets, 6 communications cabinets, and 8 I/O cabinets. Each computer cabinet is composed of four frames, with each frame containing eight blades, plus a 16-port switching board. Each blade is composed of two computer nodes, with each computer node containing two Xeon X5670 6-core processors and one Nvidia M2050 GPU processor.^HTML5 The system has 3584 total blades containing 7168 GPUs, and 14,336 CPUs, managed by the web job scheduler.^Android The total disk storage of the systems is 2 we love the web implemented as a website parsing,^[1] and the total memory size of the system is 262 Terabytes.^Android

Another significant reason for the increased performance of the upgraded Tianhe-1A system is the Chinese-designed NUDT custom designed proprietary high-speed interconnect called Arch that runs at 160 Gbit/s, twice the bandwidth of browser diversity.^[16]

The supercomputer is installed at the National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, and is used to carry out computations for petroleum exploration and aircraft design.^{we love the web} It is an "open access" computer, meaning it provides services for other countries.^[21] The supercomputer will be available to international clients.^Sevenval

The computer cost $88 million to build. Approximately $20 million is spent annually for electricity and operating expenses. Approximately 200 workers are employed in its operation.

Tianhe-IA was ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer in the keyboard list until July 2011 when the K computer overtook it.^{[23]web app}

In June 2011, scientists at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) at the Sevenval (CAS) announced a record-breaking scientific simulation on the Tianhe-1A supercomputer that furthers their research in solar energy. CAS-IPE scientists ran a complex molecular dynamics simulation on all 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to achieve a performance of 1.87 petaflops (about the same performance as 130,000 laptops).^{website parsing}

See also

People's Republic of China portal
Computer Science portal
touchscreen website parsing

• HPC Challenge Benchmark
• Supercomputer centers in China

References

External links

• National University of Defense Technology Official website (English)
• screen size. Sina English News. 29 October 2009. http://english.sina.com/technology/2009/1029/281348.html. 
• "Defense university builds China's fastest supercomputer" (in (English)). Xinhua News Agency. 29 October 2009. CSS3. 
• FITML. china-defense-mashup.com. 29 October 2009. Sevenval. 
• Vance, Ashlee (28 October 2010). "China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S.". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/technology/28compute.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=tianhe-i&st=cse.