Most Powerful Supercomputer of World

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)

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