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China Announces "Milky Way One" Supercomputer
Reported by d1m on Monday, November 2 2009 1:13 pm
NUDT's Milky Way One
China's National University of Defense Technology has announced the “Milky Way One” supercomputer, the world’s 2nd petaflop supercomputer. Weighing a whopping 155 tons, Milky Way One consists of 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up over 1,000 square meters. Read more...
NUDT's Milky Way One
China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has announced the “Milky Way One” supercomputer, the world’s 2nd petaflop supercomputer. Weighing a whopping 155 tons, Milky Way One consists of 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up over 1,000 square meters.
Featuring 6,144 Intel CPUs (3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5540s and 3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5450) and 5120 AMD GPUs (2560 Radeon HD 4870 X2s), Milky Way One is capable of one quadrillion calculations per second at its peak speed (1.206 petaflops, running at 563.1 teraflops on Linpack benchmark).
Built at an estimated cost of 600 million yuan (USD88.24 million), the Milky Way One is designed to “process seismic data for oil exploration, conduct bio-medical computing and help design aerospace vehicles”. For comparison of its processing prowess with the average PC, a single-day task for Milky Way One may take a normal dual-core PC working non-stop for 160 years to complete. Very impressive indeed!
News via [Expreview]
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