Tianhe-2
Tianhe-2 is a supercomputer built by the National University of Defense Technology in China.[1] It can do more than 33,862 million million operations every second. In 2015, it was the fastest computer in the world.[1][2] It is twice as fast as the Tianhe-1, the previous fastest supercomputer.[2] It is predicted to become even faster by 2015, reaching speeds of 100,000 million million operations every second.[3] The computer's name means "milky way".[1] The building of Tianhe-2 was expected to be finished in 2015, but was finished in 2013 instead.[4] Proposed applications for the supercomputer include physics-related applications, such as studying combustion and magnetism. It is also being used to model the atmosphere.[5]
It has been said that Tianhe-2 "may be too powerful for most tasks".[6]
Statistics
Tianhe-2 can do 33,862 trillion operations per second. It could possibly do 54,900 trillion operations per second.[1][7] It uses more than three million processor cores.[7] The supercomputer uses 17.8 million watts of power.[8] The cost of construction was 2.4 billion yuan.[6]
Records
Tianhe-2 has been ranked at the top of the Top500 list twice, in June 2013 and November 2013.[9]
Tianhe-2 Media
Tianhe-2 in National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
Related pages
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) - TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C 2.200GHz, TH Express-2, Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Greg Morcroft. China's Latest Cyberweapon Unveiled, Tianhe-2 Is Huge, Fast And Dangerous (November 20, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ John Fingas. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer could hit 100 petaflops in 2015, may have a race on its hands (November 1, 2012). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ Sebastian Anthony. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, twice as fast as DoE's Titan, shocks the world by arriving two years early (June 24, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ David Schneider. Tianhe-2 Remains the Biggest of Computing's Big Iron (November 19, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Stephen Chen. World's fastest computer, Tianhe-2, might get very little use (June 20, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 China's Tianhe-2 retakes fastest supercomputer crown. BBC News (June 17, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ Jason Dorrier. China's Tianhe-2 Doubles World's Top Supercomputing Speed Two Years Ahead Of Schedule (July 1, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ↑ Yevgeniy Sverdlik. China's Tianhe-2 remains world's most powerful computer (November 19, 2013). Retrieved February 18, 2014.