China builds petaflop computer
Dan Drollette
Friday, 30 October 2009 14:24 UTC
A reader sent in this story from “HPC Wire:”http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/China-Joins-Petaflop-Club-67358662.html “China has apparently become the third country to build a petaflop supercomputer. Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday that the country has unveiled ‘Tianhe,’ a 1.206 peak petaflop machine powered by a combination of 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs. Amazingly, the price tag was a mere $88.24 million. The system is installed at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province.”
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