[dba-Tech] The new fastest supercomputer

[Arthur Fuller]

>From the MIT Technology Review...

*Chinese Supercomputer Domination*
A homegrown Chinese supercomputer called Sunway TaihuLight has been declared
the world's fastest
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Capable of performing 93 quadrillion calculations per second, it’s three
times faster than the previous number one. TaihuLight is, as you’d imagine,
stuffed with exotic hardware: 41,000 chips, each with 260 processor cores,
give it a grand total of 10.65 million cores. There’s also 1.3 petabytes of
RAM—slightly less than the now second-place Tianhe-2, which means the new
computing champ is (relatively) efficient, drawing 15.3 megawatts of power.
Interestingly, TaihuLight isn’t based on any existing architecture: it’s built
using Chinese processors
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 . This is also a big moment for U.S.-China competition: it's the first
time that more of the world’s top 500 supercomputers are Chinese than
American.

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Arthur