However, it has a long way to go to catch up as the US has machines in the top and China has only Top computers 'to fit sugar cube'. China claims supercomputer crown. China joins supercomputer elite. The PS3-powered super-computer. Top supercomputers. Published 12 November Published 28 October China had 24 in the last list, but has pumped billions of pounds into developing its computational ability in recent years. The machines are used for everything from modelling climate change and studying the beginnings of the universe to assisting aeroplane design.
The system was built from thousands of chips made by US firms — Intel and Nvidia — but domestic researchers developed the networking technology that allows information to be exchanged between servers at extraordinary speeds.
Tianjin's weather bureau and the National Offshore Oil Corporation data centre are already using it for trial projects. Tianhe-1A was in seventh place in the last rankings.
Its domestic rival Nebulae, housed in Shenzhen, was at that time ranked second, capable of sustained computing of 1. The next set of rankings is due next week, but Jack Dongarra, the University of Tennessee computer scientist who oversees them, told the New York Times that Tianhe-1 "blows away the existing number one". One could argue that this hits the foundation of our economic future. It's the underlying message that is important.
Read more : Investigating the opioid epidemic with the most powerful supercomputer in the world. Boasting nearly 7. Fugaku is the first top-ranked system to be powered by ARM processors. Two other new features are hybrid memory cubes attached to each of the processors, and a new iteration of the Tofu network that provides tight integration between all of the nodes in the system. The ARM-based architecture represents a dramatic shift in the type of compute traditionally employed in supercomputers.
Its designers view its success as proof that there is still room for innovation in HPC. These include drug discovery, personalized medicine, weather and climate forecasting, clean energy development, and exploring the fundamental laws of the universe.
Fugaku will begin full operation in April The race to possess the most powerful supercomputer never really ends. With scientists using supercomputers for important projects such as curing debilitating diseases , we can only hope it will continue for years to come.
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