Supercomputer "Shintu" using only CPU made in China makes the world fastest

Top 500.orgSupercomputer performance ranking by "TOP 500"Was announced, Chinese"God Hwang Takahiro (Sunway TaihuLight)"Got the fastest seat in the world. Sunway TaihuLight uses an all-Chinese made unique CPU, not an American made CPU such as Intel. Besides that, the supercomputer made in China occupies the majority of the top, and the breakthrough of Chinese technology in the world of supercomputers has become a remarkable result.

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The latest result of "TOP 500" was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) held in Frankfurt, Germany on June 20, 20, the Chinese supercomputer "Sunway TaihuLight" won first place . Numerical calculation softwareLINPACKThe calculation speed of Sunway TaihuLight using 93 PFLOPS (petaflops), the world's fastest supercomputer until 2015 "Tianhe 2 (Tianhe-2)"Above the standard. For the Tianhe No. 2, which was 17.8 MW at 33 PFLOPS, Sunway TaihuLight is 93 PFLOPS and 15.3 MW which is also excellent in energy efficiency.

Sunway TaihuLight is operating at the National Supercomputer Center in Wuxi city, which is located about two hours by car from Shanghai, China. It is planned to be operated with research and engineering focusing on advanced data analysis such as climate simulation, global environmental system, modeling of life science.


What is noteworthy about Sunway TaihuLight is that the installed CPU "SW 26010" is made in China. Sunway TaihuLight has historical significance as "the fastest supercomputer by the first Chinese processor", whereas Tianhe 2 which was the fastest so far was based on Intel's Xeon processor, Sunway TaihuLight.

Behind the fact that China developed its own CPU, the US Department of Commerce in 2015, Tianhe River No.2 is being used for nuclear development research, exporting semiconductors such as Intel's CPU and NVIDIA GPU for related institutions It is considered to have banned the ban. It seems likely that the speed of CPU development in China which has been advanced for a long time has been raised in response to the prohibition of export of CPU by the United States.

"Sunway TaihuLight with a fully home-made processor from China shows the progress and significance of Chinese technology in the design and manufacture of large-scale computing systems," said Jan Gangwen, director of the National Supercomputer Center It is. According to Bloomberg, Intel said he avoided comments on Sunway TaihuLight.

The top ten of the world supercomputer ranking as of June 2016 looks like this. China ranked first and second, ranked third, fourth, sixth and seventh in the Americas, while Japan's "Kyo" ranked fifth. Because the computing speed of Kyoto is 10 PFLOPS, the top Sunway TaihuLight has about 9 times performance.


Incidentally, the number of Chinese-made machines included in the super computer's top 500 is 167, while that made in the USA is 165. Even at the top 500 level, the supercomputer made in China is the first result exceeding the number made in the USA.