Homegrown 93PFLOP supercomputer cements China's Top500 lead
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The Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world got a new king today. The Sunway TaihuLight, a new installation at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China, took the top spot with a Linpack score of 93 petaflops. TaihuLight triples the performance of the former number-one system, the Tianhe-2. That's quite impressive by itself, but TaihuLight achieves its performance entirely with Chinese ShenWei CPUs and a custom interconnect. Tianhe-2 relied on two Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs and three Xeon Phi coprocessors in each of its 16,000 nodes to achieve its 33.9-PFLOP Linpack performance figure, according to the Top500 page on that system.
The TaihuLight system. Source: Jack Dongarra, " ...