Global computer power champion
2018 and 2019 are the top years of the United States
on November 12, 2018, a new issue of the global top 500 supercomputers list was released in Dallas, the United States. The "apex" of supercomputers in the United States won the championship again. The total number of supercomputers on the list in China still ranks first, which is further increased compared with the previous issue, accounting for more than 45% of the total supercomputers on the list. China's supercomputing "Shenwei · light of Taihu Lake" and "Tianhe 2" ranked third and fourth respectively
on November 19, 2019, a new issue of the global top 500 supercomputers list came out, and the US supercomputer "apex" won the championship again, while China continued to expand its leading advantage in quantity and further narrowed its gap with the US in terms of total computing power
there is no change in the top ten of the new list. The U.S. supercomputer "zenith" has reached the top again with 1.486 billion floating-point operations per second. The second place is the U.S. supercomputer "ridge". China's supercomputer "Shenwei · light of Taihu Lake" and "tianhe-2" rank third and fourth respectively
in terms of the number on the list, there are 228 super computers in China, ranking the first in the list, 9 more than half a year ago; The United States ranked second with 117. From the perspective of total calculation power, the proportion of American Super calculation is 37.1%, and that of China is 32.3%
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summit supercomputer uses IBM Power9 microprocessor and NVIDIA Volta GPU for mathematical collaborative processing. Summit's predecessor, Titan supercomputer, has more than 18000 nodes, while summit will have about 3400 nodes. Each node will have at least 500GB of coherent memory and 800gb of nonvolatile memory
The original performance ofsummit supercomputer is 150 petaflops, and the delivery performance is 200 petaflops. The performance index of taihulight supercomputer in China is 93 petaflops, and the peak performance is 124.5 petaflops. IBM's supercomputer deal is said to be worth 325 million dollars
American supercomputer & lt; Vertex & quot; Once again, China continues to expand its leading position in quantity. According to the list, there are 228 supercomputers on the list in China, ranking the first in terms of the number of supercomputers, an increase of 9 compared with the list released half a year ago. The United States ranked second with 117, followed by Japan, France and Germany
This is the second time that the U.S. Department of energy has decided to spend a huge sum of money to develop the 10 billion supercomputer system. Its first 10 billion supercomputer A21 is currently in the development stage and will be deployed in Argonne National Laboratory and will be put into use in 2021. In April last year, two supercomputers were planned to be deployed in Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence middot in 2022 and 2023; Livermore National Laboratory to meet the needs of the advanced scientific computing research project of the science office of the Ministry of energy and the advanced simulation and computing project of the national nuclear safety administration However, China has launched the e-level computer R & D program; Tianhe-3 & quot; It's part of the plan. It is reported that the whole plan is divided into two phases. The first phase is to study & lt; Key technologies of E-class computer Three E-class prototypes were developed; The task of the second phase is to develop E-class computeraccording to the news from the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China's self-developed new generation of 10 billion secondary supercomputers & lt; Tianhe-3 & quot; The E-Class prototype has been developed and deployed, and has successfully passed the sub project acceptance. Not only that, & lt; Tianhe-3 & quot; In addition, three kinds of domestic independent high-performance computing and communication chips are used, namely & lt; Maichuang & quot; Multi core processor, high speed interconnection controller and interconnection interface controller. In addition, it includes four types of computing, storage and service nodes, hardware subsystems such as computing processing, high-speed interconnection, parallel storage and service processing, and software subsystems such as system operation, parallel development, application support and integrated management, all of which are independently designed in China
according to the plan, next year, China will build a completely independent & lt; Tianhe-3 & quot; E-class supercomputer, computing power compared with & lt; Tianhe-1 & quot; It can be increased 200 times
Meng Xiangfei, director of application research and Development Department of National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, said that they will rely on & lt; Tianhe-3 & quot; Build a high-performance computing service platform with deep integration of supercomputing and cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, which can be used for a series of super large-scale computing and simulation, such as long-term high-resolution climate and weather forecast, large-scale Aerospace numerical wind tunnel, brain science and genetic engineering
Shanghai Jiaotong University won the championship of the global supercomputing competition
on the evening of April 28, it was reported that the final of asc14, the world's largest supercomputing competition for college students, had officially ended at Sun Yat sen University in Guangzhou, Shanghai Jiaotong University won the championship of the final, and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore won the runner up. Sun Yat sen University won the highest computing performance award. The first e-prize computing Challenge Award was won by Shanghai Jiaotong University. Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, Taiyuan University of technology and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics jointly won the application innovation award
On June 19, it was learned from the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi that the international supercomputing Conference (isc2017) held in Frankfurt, Germany announced a new issue of the world's top 500 supercomputers list. China's all independently developed Shenwei Taihu light supercomputer, based on domestic multi-core processors, once again won the first place in the list with peak computing power of 1.25 billion times per second and sustained computing power of 930 million times per second
this time, PiZ daint from CSCs, a Cray
XC50 system, entered the third place. The reason why we can reach a new high is that we have replaced NVIDIA Tesla P100 accelerator card, and the speed has doubled from 9.8 petaflops last year to 19.6 petaflops this year
The new issue of the global top 500 supercomputers list was announced on June 22, Japanese supercomputer "Fuyue" became the champion. A total of 226 supercomputers were listed in China, ranking the first in the list
the list shows that the computing speed of Fuyue when it is tested reaches 4.155 billion times per second, and the peak speed can reach 10 billion times per second. This is also the first supercomputing champion to use ARM processor, which uses 48 core ARM processor a64fx
acme, developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the US Department of energy, is currently the fastest supercomputing in the United States, which has dropped from the top of the list in the previous issue to the second. "Ridge" developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the US Department of energy, Shenwei Taihu light and tianhe-2 were ranked 345 respectively
other information on the list this list shows that China has 226 supercomputers on the list, ranking first in the list. The United States ranked second with 114 units, followed by Japan, France and Germany. This is the sixth time in a row that the number of Chinese supercomputers on the list has ranked first since November 2017 Chinese enterprises continue to maintain the number advantage on the list. Lenovo, Zhongke Shuguang and Inspur are among the top three supercomputing manufacturers in the world. Among the global 500 supercomputers on the list, 312 supercomputers are proced by these three Chinese manufacturers in addition, there are only 51 supercomputers newly listed in this list, which is the least since 1993 the list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world is compiled by the international organization "top 500" and released about half a year. It is a well-known list of the installed supercomputers in the world
it has become the fastest supercomputer in the world since June 2013, and tianhe-2's dominant position has never been shaken passively<
on June 23, 2014, the international top 500 Organization released the latest list of the world's top 500 supercomputers. Tianhe-2 won the championship for the third time in a row, nearly twice as fast as the second American Titan Note: the list is published every six months)
won the global supercomputer champion for three times in a row, which made the outside world have a strong interest in this huge supercomputer. They are eager to understand the development and application status of this supercomputer<
Tianhe No.2 was born
Tianhe No.2 is a research and development project initiated by the 863 major project of the Ministry of science and technology of the people's Republic of China ring the 12th Five Year Plan period. The University of national defense science and technology took the lead in the research and development work. The R & D team of nearly 300 people started in 2011 and took more than two years to complete
before the tianhe-2, the team of the University of Defense Science and technology developed the Tianhe-1 in 2010, and for the first time, the Chinese supercomputer occupied the podium of the world champion< However, less than eight months later, a Japanese supercomputer named "Jing" pushed Tianhe-1 out of the championship. After that, the "Sequoia" and "Titan" supercomputers developed by the United States also successively ranked first in the world, and Tianhe-1 ranked eighth
in fact, when the outside world praised Tianhe-1 for winning the first place in the world, the development of tianhe-2 has quietly started. In June 2013, after more than 280 people's painstaking research and development for more than two years, tianhe-2 was officially developed successfully, and soon regained the title of supercomputer champion. So far, tianhe-2 has become the fastest supercomputer in the world three times in a row
"when we go to school, the most annoying and proud thing is the power failure of the school!" Mu Tong, a graate of National Defense University of science and technology, often recalls his campus life and says, "once the" giant "in the school runs at full speed, the whole school will be cut off. No matter you are watching TV or playing computer games, you need to accept this fact, even the president is no exception!"
the behemoth Mu Tong refers to is tianhe-2, a supercomputer with amazing computing power. Mu Tong clearly remembers that in those two years, in order to ensure the R & D work of tianhe-2, the Party committee of the school specially issued a notice calling on all teachers and students to save electricity
"in the summer of more than 30 degrees in Changsha, the president, Dean and students of National Defense University of science and technology should respond to the call to turn off high-power electrical appliances such as air conditioners and replace them with electric fans." When recalling this scene, Mu Tong's face flashed a feeling of satisfaction
nowadays, the freshmen of the University of national defense science and technology can no longer feel the pride of this "power failure", because tianhe-2 has moved from the University of national defense science and technology in Changsha to Guangzhou Supercomputing Center, and with the provision of dedicated power supply, the research and development of tianhe-n in the future may no longer make the teachers and students of the University enre the heat of Changsha<
what can tianhe-2 do
it took more than two years to develop tianhe-2 and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Such a huge amount of investment, of course, is ultimately to serve the national economic construction, rather than just flaunt the country's ability in the field of supercomputers has reached what height<
in addition to assisting government scientific research projects such as lunar exploration project and manned space flight, tianhe-2 has been graally applied in civil fields, such as oil exploration, design and manufacture of automobile aircraft, gene sequencing, etc
there are 32000 main CPUs, 48000 coprocessors and more than 3 million computing cores in rows of tall black cabinets of tianhe-2. With so many computing cores, its computing speed is amazing
it is estimated that the peak computing speed of tianhe-2 can reach 549 million times per second, while the continuous computing speed can reach 339 million times per second. Assuming that each person carries out the calculation once a second, tianhe-2 will operate for one hour, which is equivalent to 1.3 billion people using calculators to calculate 1000 years at the same time
according to experts, the development of new cars by traditional means usually takes more than two years to complete after hundreds of collision experiments, while the simulation by tianhe-2 only takes three to five real vehicle collisions and two months
in addition, tianhe-2 can also be used in the entertainment instry, and now it has become a trend to make animation and 3D movies through supercomputers. The animation rendering of the movie Avatar took more than a year to complete. If we use tianhe-2, we can make a movie with the same dynamic dyeing effect as avatar in only one month
Beijing Research Center of China Commercial Aircraft Design Co., Ltd. has carried out full parameter aerodynamic optimization design of large civil aircraft by using about 24000 CPU cores, and completed the workload of its own computing platform in about two years in six days of tianhe-2 calculation, which greatly improves the optimization efficiency
the person in charge of the Internet support and development center of BGI said that tianhe-2 has powerful computing power. Taking the genome-wide information association analysis of 500 people as an example, it takes BGI one year to use the original computer and only three hours to use tianhe-2. BGI is a major commercial customer of Tianhe-1 and tianhe-2
according to the person in charge, the bioinformatics software used by BGI can quickly run on tianhe-2 without further programming; At the same time, the powerful computing power of tianhe-2 can quickly meet the computing resources required by the analysis of the massive gene data of BGI, and save a lot of analysis time<
so far, tianhe-2, the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, has provided more than 300 typical applications for more than 120 users in just a few months
more importantly, technologies like tianhe-2 can actually be replicated. According to Lu Yutong, the chief designer of tianhe-2, the technology of Tianhe-1 and tianhe-2 can be used on the "little Tianhe" supercomputer which is smaller in scale and can be customized by users“ In 2010, after the successful development of Tianhe-1, in fact, by 2012, 11 sets of systems such as "xiaotianhe" have been promoted. "<
energy consumption problem: the annual power consumption of tianhe-2 is more than 100 million yuan
from the current point of view of tianhe-2, the energy consumption of the calculation node is about 18 MW, and the overall energy consumption of the cooling system is more than 20 MW
By August 2019, the fastest computer in the world is tianhe-2
Tianhe-2 is a supercomputer system developed by the University of Defense Science and technology. The peak computing speed is 549 million times per second, and the continuous computing speed is 339 million times per second. It ranks first in the world's supercomputers and became the fastest supercomputer in 2013in the list of global top 500 supercomputers released on November 17, 2014, China's "Tianhe 2" won the championship for the fourth time in a row, almost twice as much as the second "Titan" of the United States
in May 2015, tianhe-2 successfully carried out cosmological N-body numerical simulation of 3 trillion neutrinos and dark matter, revealing the long-term evolution process of the universe 16 million years after the big bang, and the evolution process of the universe about 13.7 billion years after the big bang
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tianhe-2 has been applied in biomedicine, new materials, engineering design and simulation analysis, weather forecast, smart city, e-commerce, cloud computing and big data, digital media and animation design, etc., and will be widely used in big science, science and technology Large engineering field. Information technology and other fields provide important support for economic and social transformation and upgrading. Support
tianhe-2 is graally playing an important role in life science, materials science, atmospheric science, geophysics, cosmology and economics, as well as a series of large-scale genome assembly, gene sequencing, pollution control and other large-scale science and engineering related to national environmental protection. Economy and people's livelihood
In addition, the National Supercomputing Guangzhou center actively promotes international exchanges and cooperation, and uses Tianhe 2 to provide high-performance computing services for foreign research institutionsone day before the SC06 2006 supercomputer conference, top500.org announced the 28th supercomputer top 500 list in advance, and the ranking of the top 10 has undergone significant changes, because there are seven rookies in the top 10, And two new amd Opteron systems occupy the second and ninth places<
the computing performance of the top 500 supercomputer is still improving rapidly. The average computing power of the 10th place is 54.20 tflpos, and the 500 place also has 2.734 tflops, which is 34.7% higher than the last 2.03 tflops, and the 100th place 6.65 tflops can even be ranked in the top 10 in 2003
overall, the total computing power of TOP500 is 56% higher than that of the last time, and the top ten of them are greatly affected. The "blue gene / L" system of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) of the US Department of energy still ranks first, with a peak computing power of 367.0tflops and an average of 280.6tflops; The second runner up of new technology is the "red storm" of Sandia National Laboratory of the United States. Cray, a supercomputer manufacturer, uses 13277 2.4GHz al core Opteron processors to build it. Its peak computing power is 127.4tflops. Although it is only 34.7% of blue gene, it is the second supercomputer in history to surpass 100tflops; IBM's new blue gene system "BGW" won the second place, and its peak computing power exceeded 100 tflops, reaching 114.7 tflops
IBM's cell system not only won the champion and the second place, but also occupied the other two positions in the top 10, with 93 sets in the top 500
in the sixth place is Dell Thunderbird system, which is based on Intel Xeon 3.6ghz processor, which is also the highest ranking of Intel platform. The number of Intel platforms in the top 500 has been reced from 301 to 263, and the number of Itanium systems has been reced from 37 to 35. However, the system based on the latest Woodcrest Xeon 5100 has been on the list
with its excellent performance in the server field and outstanding computing performance in recent years, AMD's Opteron processor has occupied 113 seats in the top 500, compared with 81 last time. In addition, there are 20 sets of PA-RISC platform, 3 sets of alpha platform, 3 sets of SPARC platform developed by Fujitsu, and 10 sets of sun systems all use x86 processors
(Armonk, New York) - recently, in IDC's latest list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM ranked first among all manufacturers, almost twice as many as new HP. There are 304 kinds of IBM eServer systems on IDC's list, 171 for new HP and 89 for sun. In addition, IDC's "balance level benchmark" further proves that the performance of a 32 way IBM eServer p690 server is better than that of sun fire 15K and HP Superdome, and its processor number is only half of those servers
"IBM's success in supercomputing comes from a simple philosophy - we build supercomputers to handle supercomputing applications in a variety of business and technological environments." "As long as more companies rely on supercomputers to handle large data mining and other important applications, IBM will continue to be a leader in this important field," said David gelardi, head of benchmark testing at IBM eServer
the IBM supercomputers on the list include large clusters from stand-alone systems to 512 computers. At the stand-alone level, the 32 way IBM eServer p690 and 72 way sun fire 15K show extraordinary advantages over the 64 way HP Superdome. Supported by power4 microprocessor, IBM eServer p690 is the first kind of "server on a chip". It includes two processors above 1GHz, a large bandwidth system switch, a large memory buffer and I / O interface. It is precisely because of the unique design of p690 that it has changed the rules of the UNIX instry
IDC's ranking is also in line with the results of the top 500 supercomputers. The ranking of the top 500 supercomputers is published twice a year by two supercomputing experts, Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee in the United States and Hans meuer from Mannheim University in Germany. These 500 kinds of computers are the most powerful and the best in the world. In the latest top 500 ranking, IBM system accounts for 160 kinds - more than all other manufacturers
IBM also revealed that it is planning to build "blue gene / L" - a supercomputer with 200 tflop (1 tflop equals one trillion calculations per second) in the near future. At present, some of its related basic technologies are being jointly developed by IBM Research Center and Lawrence Livermore National Research Laboratory. In addition, IBM is building a pflop level blue gene machine for various life science projects.
On June 19, the global supercomputing conference held in Frankfurt, Germany announced a new issue of the global top 500 supercomputing list. For the third time, Shenwei Taihu light, which was developed by the national parallel computer engineering technology research center using China's own chips, appeared at the top of the global top 500 supercomputing list (issue 49), achieving the third consecutive title
at the same time, two application achievements of "Shenwei · light of Taihu Lake" also entered the nomination of "Gordon Bell Award"
the reporter saw in the application achievement exhibition area of National Supercomputing Wuxi center that China's aviation and aerospace related research institutions are currently cooperating with Wuxi supercomputing to simulate the flight status of C919 large aircraft and Tiangong series space vehicles. A company in Shandong is still using the super power of "Shenwei · light of Taihu Lake" for animation proction. According to reports, this can not only proce more realistic animation rendering effect, but also greatly shorten the proction cycle“ In the future, we are likely to see domestic animation blockbusters based on the computing power of "Shenwei · Taihu Lake light." Yang Guangwen said
In addition, the National Supercomputing Wuxi center is also considering how to serve the local economic development“ Jiangsu is a big manufacturing province. How to help the manufacturing instry realize innovation is an important application direction we are considering. " Yang Guangwen said that the center hopes to better support the development of local manufacturing instry and build the National Supercomputing Wuxi center into an instrial science and technology innovation center in Jiangsu Province. He said that at present, most of the application software in China's manufacturing instry is foreign commercial software. In this regard, the National Supercomputing Wuxi center is also in the layout. For example, it has started the construction of Greenwich smart wind farm platform with prospect energy, and also carried out research in automobile manufacturing, shipbuilding, new drug research and developmentChina is powerful
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