China developing new generation supercomputer

[TaiShang]

China developing new generation supercomputer

Chinese tech company ‪#‎Dawning‬ Information Industry has begun developing a new generation ‪#‎supercomputer‬ that is capable of over a hundred thousand trillion computing operations per second, said Li Jun, the company's president.

But he denied reports that the dawning 7000, designed to better meet market demands for high-speed communication networks, large-scale storage and application software, will be launched within two years.

Previous reports said the supercomputer had entered the phases of trial production and assembling, and would meet the public in two years. Li denied such speculations.

"Dawning 7000 is not an all-purpose machine. It serves as a mainframe tailored for certain application. So the development cycle is very long," Li said.

Backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dawning is also the developer of Nebulae or Dawning 6000, which ranked the second in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers in 2010 for its measured Linpack value of 1.271 petaflop times a second.

 

[cirr]

Over 100,000 trillion computing operations in a second is over 0.1 exaflops，about 3 times as fast as Tianhe-2。

I think Tianhe-X will beat Dawning 7000 to it。

 

[TaiShang]

Over 100,000 trillion computing operations in a second is over 0.1 exaflops，about 3 times as fast as Tianhe-2。

I think Tianhe-X will beat Dawning 7000 to it。

 

[Jlaw]

China developing new generation supercomputer

Chinese tech company ‪#‎Dawning‬ Information Industry has begun developing a new generation ‪#‎supercomputer‬ that is capable of over a hundred thousand trillion computing operations per second, said Li Jun, the company's president.

But he denied reports that the dawning 7000, designed to better meet market demands for high-speed communication networks, large-scale storage and application software, will be launched within two years.

Previous reports said the supercomputer had entered the phases of trial production and assembling, and would meet the public in two years. Li denied such speculations.

"Dawning 7000 is not an all-purpose machine. It serves as a mainframe tailored for certain application. So the development cycle is very long," Li said.

Backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dawning is also the developer of Nebulae or Dawning 6000, which ranked the second in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers in 2010 for its measured Linpack value of 1.271 petaflop times a second.

Read that article in Chinese news, you beat me to the punch. You might as well add Beidou will start tracking civilian flights soon article

 

[cirr]

Read that article in Chinese news, you beat me to the punch. You might as well add Beidou will start tracking civilian flights soon article

China's Beidou navigation system to track flights

2015-07-13 08:40XinhuaEditor: Gu Liping

Exhibitors at Xinjiang International Exhibition Center check Beidou Navigation Satellite System terminals on Tuesday. [Photo/China Daily]

China will use its homegrown Beidou satellite navigation system (BDS) to track civil flights, in an attempt to avoid disasters like the Malaysian MH 370.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said the BDS will be tested on general aviation first before it is used to monitor passenger or cargo flights.

The BDS, which boasts navigation, positioning and short message services, is able to trace aircrafts and aid search and rescue operations.

"We will first collect data and gather experience in general aviation and then gradually apply the BDS to transport aviation," said Wu Chengchang, safety chief of the CAAC at a recent seminar on BDS application in civil aviation.

China launched the first BDS satellite in 2000 to provide an alternative to foreign navigation systems. The country aimed to launch a total of 35 such orbiters and complete the global network by 2020.

The BDS services currently cover the Asia Pacific and will be expanded to the whole globe by its completion.

China's Beidou navigation system to track flights

 

[JSCh]

China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Maintains Top Spot on List of World’s Top Supercomputers
Feature Article, press-release

Posted 9 hours, 38 minutes ago

FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— For the fifth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system, according to the 45th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, led the list with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark.

Cont->China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Maintains Top Spot on List of World’s Top Supercomputers | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites

 

[kuge]

OT for all these so-called hi-tech...still cant find the missing malaysian airliner whereabout.....

 

[somsak]

Hey! What about US banned on Intel CPU? No effect nothing? Still Intel can bypass and sell other models instead?

 

[CCP]

Hey! What about US banned on Intel CPU? No effect nothing? Still Intel can bypass and sell other models instead?

No more US CPUs.
Dawning 7000 will use 100% Chinese CPUs. 飞腾1500A+ 龙芯3B2000 (FT-1500A + Loongson3B2000)

"历军介绍说，曙光7000从处理器、高速通信网络、大规模存储系统、系统软件到应用软件全面采用自主技术，安全可控。

就可查的信息可以推测，这里的处理器应该指的是国产飞腾和龙芯，前者已经在天河二号上部分应用，后者也刚刚发布了新架构的3B2000处理器，并和曙光联合推出了一大批服务器产品。"

国产新超算推迟？弃Intel换自主CPU 性能倍增_高性能计算_服务器存储_IT产品和服务_赛迪网

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Hey! What about US banned on Intel CPU? No effect nothing? Still Intel can bypass and sell other models instead?

China should thank the US for that, since all domestic products used to thrive against the US sanctions.

 

[Borr]

China has CPU made at home. They are just not as commercially profitable as Intel ones and that's why you don't see them in PCs en mass.

There have been discussions of a counter-ban on any embargoed item for twice of duration, so cheap foreign product would not flood the market when China developed home-made versions.

Hey! What about US banned on Intel CPU? No effect nothing? Still Intel can bypass and sell other models instead?

 

[CCP]

Dawning Develops New Supercomputer in China : Tech : Yibada

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The new project will be backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which also helped develop Dawning 6000 in 2011.

Dawning 6000 or Nebulae, was ranked the second in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers in 2010.

Nebulae, the "first supercomputer made exclusively of Chinese components," has a measured Linpack value of 1.271 petaflops per second.

The Dawning supercomputer was made purely out of local microchips. The Godson-powered machine has 3B chips that run at 3.2 gigaflops per watt....."

 

[TaiShang]

Hey! What about US banned on Intel CPU? No effect nothing? Still Intel can bypass and sell other models instead?

The sanctions have been a blessing.

China will be using domestic chips for the next supercomputer.

At times a good beating is the best teaching.

 

[cirr]

Hey! What about US banned on Intel CPU? No effect nothing? Still Intel can bypass and sell other models instead?

Godson 3B3000 CPUs。

The sanctions have been a blessing.

China will be using domestic chips for the next supercomputer.

At times a good beating is the best teaching.

Sorry for the misleading title（3B3000 not 3B2000）：

龙芯总设计师:明年将推出全自主可控处理器3B2000|3b3000|3b2000_凤凰军事

 

[cirr]

Tianhe to run 1 quintillion per second

2018-01-09 10:49 China Daily Editor: Liang Meichen

Two engineers examine the equipment of Tianhe at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin. (Photo provided to China Daily)

China's supercomputer can achieve high speed ahead of U.S., Japan peers

Scientists have set an ambitious target for China's Tianhe-3 supercomputer to meet by 2020, the goal of making a quintillion calculations per second.

The supercomputer is expected to hit the speed－which can also be expressed as a billion billions, or 1 followed by 18 zeros－ahead of the United States and Japan, where their supercomputer scientists are also beefing up efforts to meet the ambitious goal.

"We, however, aren't just working for the great speed but aiming to help quench the country's thirst in more fields in applications with this speed," said Meng Xiangfei, director of the application department at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin.

Wider applications have surged including weather forecasting, disaster prevention, energy conservation, and medicines for epidemic outbreaks, to name a few, he said.

Currently 1,600 teams in 20 cities are working with the supercomputer on nearly 10,000 scientific research projects every day.

Tianhe-1 serves more than 1,600 research institutes and companies from more than 20 provinces and regions.

The Tianhe-1 has served 1,200 national-level key innovation projects and generated a combined economic return of up to 3 billion yuan ($459.2 million) for those entities.

Users are taking advantage of the massive computing power to scan the Earth for oil, create artificial nuclear fusion, and build airplanes and maritime equipment.

The supercomputer is now the driving force of the country's innovation in the computer sector and plays an important role in the nation's information security.

The development of the computer has undergone ups and downs.

For example, in 2015, the U.S. banned the export of the chips for Tianhe, but China soon geared up its innovation and enhanced its competitive edge to fulfill the need for top-level chips, central processing units and operating systems.

The ever escalating innovation in big data and artificial intelligence in China will spur the further development of its supercomputer sector.

The supercomputer's growth represents the country's electronic information, integrated circuits, and chip and software sector.

The researcher said now the center is revving up the efforts to conduct research on the 2020 goal, tackling with the challenges of the supportive integrated circuits, chips and software and overall design.

Echoing Meng, Ding Nan, a scientist working for China's fastest supercomputer, Sunway TaihuLight at the Nation-al Super Computing Center in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, said Sunway TaihuLight is coping with the challenges of ever rising demand and the critical need is the software.

"If the memory scales up, the software in memory, applications and security face strong challenges," Ding said.

Ding said that Sunway TaihuLight has the capacity to overcome the barriers, as its technologies and software are entirely independently developed.

Pan Jingshan, deputy head of the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province, said the next generation of Sunway TaihuLight, the prototype of the Sunway Exascale Supercomputer will debut this year and is expected to see its speed hit 4-5 petaflops－4-5 thousand trillions－per second.

China has taken the lead in the hardware of supercomputer and the software has also making headway. The country's supercomputer now is confronted with two major obstacles, energy conservation and wider market applications, Pan said.

In the future the exascale supercomputer with a speed of 1 quintillion calculations per second will consume 30-40 megawatts of energy per hour. The energy demand is a major obstacle hampering the supercomputer's efficiency.

Pan said: "The major challenge as well as the value of supercomputer in China lie in its application. To design state-of-the-art software to meet the calculating demand is key to success."

"Hefty investment is urged to be poured into the sector in a bid to boost the research to serve cutting edge research and development," Pan said.

http://www.ecns.cn/2018/01-09/287570.shtml