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China supercomputer enters top 10 list
BEIJING: Although missing the world’s most extensive rankings for the best supercomputers, a Chinese-made high-performance server rivals the seventh fastest for computing speed.
Dawning 5000A, with a capability of 160 trillions of computing operations per second, is signed to be installed in the Shanghai Supercomputer Centre (SSC), which specialises in supercomputing outsourcing services for daunting jobs such as genome mapping, quake appraisal, precise weather forecast, mining survey and stock exchange data.
Nie Hua, vice-president of Dawning Information Industry Co., said on Wednesday: “The delay in the delivery of AMD Barcelona quad-cores chips made us miss the latest rankings.” The International Supercomputing Conference released last week in Dresden, Germany, the latest competition results of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, or TOP500.
The world’s No. 1 system, “Roadrunner,” which was built by IBM for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, was so revolutionary that it exceeded the milestone of running one quadrillion computing operations a second, 5.4 times faster than Dawning 5000A. While “Roadrunner” was built for unspecified military applications, the Chinese super system, covering a floor space of 75 square metres, focuses on commercial use. — Xinhua
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