Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, having performance level of 2.57 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) attain the position of most powerful supercomputer of the world
China is accelerating its move into high performance computing. It is the number two country after USA leaving behind Japan, France, Germany and the UK. It has 42 systems on the TOP 500 Supercomputer list. In past different countries has been ranked as no 1 in supercomputer which are listed below.
List of No.1 Supercomputer of the for last ten year
• NUDT Tianhe-1A ( China, since November 2010)
• Cray Jaguar ( United States, November 2009 - November 2010)
• IBM Roadrunner ( United States, June 2008 – November 2009)
• IBM Blue Gene/L ( United States, November 2004 – June 2008)
• NEC Earth Simulator ( Japan, June 2002 – November 2004)
• IBM ASCI White ( United States, November 2000 – June 2002)
Detail of Most powerful supercomputer of the world
System Name Tianhe-1A
Site National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin
System Family NUDT MPP
System Model NUDT YH MPP
Computer NUDT TH MPP, X5670 2.93Ghz 6C, NVIDIA GPU, FT-1000 8C
Vendor NUDT
Application area Research
Main Memory 229376 GB
Installation Year 2010
Operating System Linux
Memory 229376 GB
Interconnect Proprietary
Processor Intel EM64T Xeon X56xx (Westmere-EP) 2930 MHz (11.72 GFlops)
