China is growing into a super power in the world. First they show casted their military power and advance weapons on the parade. Now they have come up with their world’s fastest super computer. The National University of Defense Technology unveiled the China’s fastest super computer, which could rival the world’s most powerful computing devices. The super computer named Tinahe, meaning Milky Way will in theory do more than one quadrillion calculations per second at peak speed.
A single day task for Tinahe might take a mainstream dual core personal computer 160 years to compute, working non-stop. This giant device, a product of two years of work by 200 computer scientists, is housed on the NUDT campus. This system is equipped with 6144 Intel CPUs and 5120 AMD GPUs, Tinahe was able to store all the 27 million books in the National Library of China. The overall cost for building this supercomputer is $88.24 millions.
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