Today's Important News (30-10-2011)
The Hindu
National:
Pratibha for multi-pronged strategy to curb
corruption
IPS officers undergo strategic training at Cambridge
International:
Commonwealth defers decision on Human Rights
Commissioner
Crucial poll in Kyrgyzstan
Higgins to be Ireland's President
13 U.S. troops killed in Kabul
India & The World:
No let-up in pressure on Pakistan: India
Jaipur all set to host grand conclave of Indian
diaspora in January
Pakistan acknowledges India's support yet again
India, Japan discuss nuclear pact
Business News:
Can India make a dent in China's growing tea market?
S&T, Environment, Defence:
Expert advocates corrective surgery of spine before
puberty for achieving best results
More tests on ‘time travel' particles
Sports:
Rural sports academy dearer to me than F1: Maken
Others:
No News
Editorials & Articles:
No News
The Times of India
National:
No News
International:
Pakistan opposed to regional solution on Afghanistan
The west wants to control arab spring
US and Islamists: It takes two to tango
Taliban suicide bomber kills 13 US troops in
Afghanistan
India & The World:
No News
Business News:
Govt dilutes Companies Bill: Asks firms to spend 2%
of net profit or just give reason
Economy slips through leadership gap
S&T, Environment, Defence:
Our defence forces need an Indian 'kavach'
Sports:
No News
Others:
No News
Editorials & Articles:
No News
The Indian Express
National:
Patil seeks multi-pronged strategy to fight graft
International:
13 Americans killed in Kabul attack
India & The World:
Commonwealth gets a warning: Reform or become
irrelevant
Japan assures India on N-pact
Bhattarai reaches out to rival faction on India pact
Business News:
Development issues dear to India to figure on G20
agenda: Montek
S&T, Environment, Defence:
US misread global environment, lost its way:
Friedman
Sports:
No News
Others:
No News
Editorials & Articles:
‘If Aakash can help level the playing field for the
poor, that’s the biggest motivator’
The Economist:
No News
China unveils supercomputer 'Sunway BlueLight MPP' based on its own chips
New York Times Oct 29, 2011, 11.02am IST
Tags:
Sunway BlueLight MPP|microprocessor chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance US computing specialists.
The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organized by industry and government organizations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in eastern China.
The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second – a petaflop – will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai.
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance U.S. computing specialists.
The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organised by industry and government organisations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in eastern China.
The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second a petaflop will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai.
Currently, the Chinese are about three generations behind the state-of-art chip making technologies used by world leaders such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
“This is a bit of a surprise,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee and a leader of the Top500 project, a list of the world's fastest computers.
Last fall, another Chinese based supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, created an international sensation when it was briefly ranked as the world's fastest, before it was displaced in the spring by a rival Japanese machine, the K Computer, designed by Fujitsu.
INTERNAL SYSTEM
But the Tianhe was built from processor chips made by U.S. companies, Intel and Nvidia, though its internal switching system was designed by Chinese computer engineers. Similarly, the K computer was based on Sparc chips, originally designed at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley.
Mr. Dongarra said the Sunway's theoretical peak performance was about 74 per cent as fast as the fastest U.S. computer the Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made by Cray Inc. That machine is currently the third fastest on the list.
The Energy Department is planning three supercomputers that would run at 10 to 20 petaflops. And the United States is embarking on an effort to reach an exaflop, or 1 million trillion mathematical operations in a second, sometime before the end of the decade, although most computer scientists say the necessary technologies do not yet exist.
China unveils supercomputer 'Sunway BlueLight MPP' based on its own chips
New York Times Oct 29, 2011, 11.02am IST
Tags:
Sunway BlueLight MPP|microprocessor chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance US computing specialists.
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| FAST FORWARD: A journalist shoots video footage of the data storage system of the Sunway Bluelight supercomputer at the newly established National Supercomputing Center in Jinan on Saturday. |
The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organized by industry and government organizations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in eastern China.
The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second – a petaflop – will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai.
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance U.S. computing specialists.
The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organised by industry and government organisations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in eastern China.
The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second a petaflop will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai.
Currently, the Chinese are about three generations behind the state-of-art chip making technologies used by world leaders such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
“This is a bit of a surprise,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee and a leader of the Top500 project, a list of the world's fastest computers.
Last fall, another Chinese based supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, created an international sensation when it was briefly ranked as the world's fastest, before it was displaced in the spring by a rival Japanese machine, the K Computer, designed by Fujitsu.
INTERNAL SYSTEM
But the Tianhe was built from processor chips made by U.S. companies, Intel and Nvidia, though its internal switching system was designed by Chinese computer engineers. Similarly, the K computer was based on Sparc chips, originally designed at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley.
Mr. Dongarra said the Sunway's theoretical peak performance was about 74 per cent as fast as the fastest U.S. computer the Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made by Cray Inc. That machine is currently the third fastest on the list.
The Energy Department is planning three supercomputers that would run at 10 to 20 petaflops. And the United States is embarking on an effort to reach an exaflop, or 1 million trillion mathematical operations in a second, sometime before the end of the decade, although most computer scientists say the necessary technologies do not yet exist.
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