China creates world’s fastest computer without relying on US hardware for first time



A Chinese supercomputer has been named the world's fastest computer for the seventh year in a row – but unlike previous winners, this year's champion uses only Chinese-designed processors, representing a decline of US dominance in the field.

The new titleholder, the Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, was developed by China's National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology.

The supercomputer uses Chinese-developed ShenWei processors, “ending any remaining speculation that China would have to rely on Western technology to compete effectively in the upper echelons of supercomputing," said a statement by the TOP500 project ranking the world's fastest supercomputers.

It is capable of 93 petaflops, or quadrillion calculations per second, according to TOP500. It was designed for use in engineering and research, including in the fields of climate, weather, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and data analytics.

The TaihuLight will be introduced at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday.

"As the first No. 1 system of China that is completely based on homegrown processors, the Sunway TaihuLight system demonstrates the significant progress that China has made in the domain of designing and manufacturing large-scale computation systems," Guangwen Yang, director of the Wuxi center, was quoted as saying in the TOP500 statement.

Other countries with computers in the Top 10 were Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Saudi Arabia.

In addition to beating out US computers, China also surpassed the US for the first time as the country with the most supercomputers in the top 500. China had 167 systems and the US had 165. Japan took third place with 29 systems.

China's developments serve as evidence of dwindling US dominance in the field, with TOP500 organizers saying: “Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with none ranked in the top 30, the nation has come further and faster than any other country in the history of supercomputing.”

Defined as a computer that performs at or near the highest operational rate for computers, supercomputers are one of a series of technologies being used by China's ruling Communist Party for development. The technologies have received huge financial support in the country.

http://www.rt.com/news/347620-china-supercomputer-sunway-taihulight/

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Scientists successfully test ‘biological supercomputer’ performing complex tasks
Published time: 29 Feb, 2016



Researchers have taken on the problem of reducing a super computer the size of a basketball field to that of a book. The answer is “biocomputers” – incredibly powerful machines capable of performing multiple calculations with a fraction of energy.

According to study coordinator Heiner Linke, who heads nanoscience at Lund University in Sweden, “a biocomputer requires less than one percent of the energy an electronic transistor needs to carry out one calculation step.”

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More like stolen technology. We were catching resident aliens trying to steal schematics form our r/d sites. It was great because this kind of crime deported the violator And his sponsor was removed forever from the list. LIKE I SAID BEFORE NO ORIGINAL THINKING.

it's also the first supercomputer built with no American parts...


i blame obama...

Quantum Computers will Defeat the Cheap Chinese Copies

Quantum computers are different from binary digital electronic computers based on transistors. Whereas common digital computing requires that the data are encoded into binary digits (bits), each of which is always in one of two definite states (0 or 1), quantum computation uses quantum bits (qubits), which can be in superpositions (both 0 & 1 as the same time) of states. A quantum Turing machine is a theoretical model of such a computer, and is also known as the universal quantum computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

If their super computer is anything like Harbor Freight Tools it will burn up after the third or fourth time they use it.

Well done China...

That is a good overview. Another thing to take into perspective,is in the system of high speed trading,a millisecond can be the deciding factor in large sums of money passing hands.Another way to look at that,is like being first in line at the sale.If traders in London have information before those in New York,a millisecond can be the deciding factor on who makes the buy/sell...It has become a system based on tech advances,instead of human decision making. Those traders on the floor of the stock exchanges are nothing but a group of straw men...

` hell know what will be those nuts next moves........only if they'll using such thing to recontroling the china marketing.......it is horrible realy horrible. if you do living in china years ago......

Ok.. but it's still just speaks Chinese probably... no help to me at all..lol

don't mess with the china marketing details........or will consuming your normal logical defines......

Impressive!!!

That is a Load of propaganda and BS as you all know.
Other than trivial developments the human brain is still far from the greatest computer on the planet.
Organic / Electrical is the way.

Hahahaha Joker.. Has anyone else spotted the Spoof yet ?
I am not one to spoil a good Joke.
Look at the photos carefully and figure it out..
Hahahaha Such a Joker.
Good on ye Bud