China Tianhe-2 became the No.1 supercomputer in June 2013 Top 500 list
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First of all, congrat to Chinese achievement.
The Top 500 is a half-yearly ranking published by a German University on Commercial Non-Purpose Built Super computer, started in 1993 and have a single ranking yearly. The previous ranking are as follow
Tianhe-2A ( China, June 2013 - present)
Cray Titan ( United States, November 2012 - June 2013)
IBM Sequoia Blue Gene/Q ( United States, June 2012 November 2012)
Fujitsu K computer ( Japan, June 2011 June 2012)
NUDT Tianhe-1A ( China, November 2010 June 2011)
Cray Jaguar ( United States, November 2009 November 2010)
IBM Roadrunner ( United States, June 2008 November 2009)
IBM Blue Gene/L ( United States, November 2004 June 2008)
NEC Earth Simulator ( Japan, June 2002 November 2004)
IBM ASCI White ( United States, November 2000 June 2002)
Intel ASCI Red ( United States, June 1997 November 2000)
Hitachi CP-PACS ( Japan, November 1996 June 1997)
Hitachi SR2201 ( Japan, June 1996 November 1996)
Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel ( Japan, November 1994 June 1996)
Intel Paragon XP/S140 ( United States, June 1994 November 1994)
Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel ( Japan, November 1993 June 1994)
TMC CM-5 ( United States, June 1993 November 1993)
When there are no new supercomputer surfacing, the ranking will remain unchanged for that half year
However, being listed in Number spot of Top 500 is not the same as Being the Fastest Super-Computer in the world. As there are several exclusion on entering the Top500 list.
First requirement are to be able to benchmark the performance.
Second requirement are to be able to run on commercial platform.
Third requirement are NOT to be purpose built.
The list of "fastest computer" is virtually impossible to compile, according to Guinness book of world record people
TOP500 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Top 500 is a half-yearly ranking published by a German University on Commercial Non-Purpose Built Super computer, started in 1993 and have a single ranking yearly. The previous ranking are as follow
Tianhe-2A ( China, June 2013 - present)
Cray Titan ( United States, November 2012 - June 2013)
IBM Sequoia Blue Gene/Q ( United States, June 2012 November 2012)
Fujitsu K computer ( Japan, June 2011 June 2012)
NUDT Tianhe-1A ( China, November 2010 June 2011)
Cray Jaguar ( United States, November 2009 November 2010)
IBM Roadrunner ( United States, June 2008 November 2009)
IBM Blue Gene/L ( United States, November 2004 June 2008)
NEC Earth Simulator ( Japan, June 2002 November 2004)
IBM ASCI White ( United States, November 2000 June 2002)
Intel ASCI Red ( United States, June 1997 November 2000)
Hitachi CP-PACS ( Japan, November 1996 June 1997)
Hitachi SR2201 ( Japan, June 1996 November 1996)
Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel ( Japan, November 1994 June 1996)
Intel Paragon XP/S140 ( United States, June 1994 November 1994)
Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel ( Japan, November 1993 June 1994)
TMC CM-5 ( United States, June 1993 November 1993)
When there are no new supercomputer surfacing, the ranking will remain unchanged for that half year
However, being listed in Number spot of Top 500 is not the same as Being the Fastest Super-Computer in the world. As there are several exclusion on entering the Top500 list.
First requirement are to be able to benchmark the performance.
Second requirement are to be able to run on commercial platform.
Third requirement are NOT to be purpose built.
The list of "fastest computer" is virtually impossible to compile, according to Guinness book of world record people
TOP500 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Top 5 countries with the most supercomputers @ June 2013:
China 65
USA 253
Japan 30
UK 29
France 23
Top 10 fastest:
rank prev Country Name-of-Machine
1 - China Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2)
2 1 USA Titan
3 2 USA Sequoia
4 3 Japan K Computer
5 4 USA Mira
6 7 Ger Stampede
7 5 USA JUQUEEN
8 65 USA Vulcan
9 6 Ger SuperMUC
10 8 China Tianhe-1A
Vulcan of USA jumps from #65 to #8
All previous top 4 lower a rank
What encouraging is we are using more and more of our home-made chips!
China 65
USA 253
Japan 30
UK 29
France 23
Top 10 fastest:
rank prev Country Name-of-Machine
1 - China Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2)
2 1 USA Titan
3 2 USA Sequoia
4 3 Japan K Computer
5 4 USA Mira
6 7 Ger Stampede
7 5 USA JUQUEEN
8 65 USA Vulcan
9 6 Ger SuperMUC
10 8 China Tianhe-1A
Vulcan of USA jumps from #65 to #8
All previous top 4 lower a rank
What encouraging is we are using more and more of our home-made chips!
Using American made Intel processors of course.
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China regains No 1 supercomputer
Xinhua, June 17, 2013
www.china.org.cn
A supercomputer developed by Chinese researchers was ranked on Monday as the world's fastest computing system, overtaking the former champion made by the United States.
According to TOP500, a project ranking the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world, Tianhe-2 developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, was capable of operating as fast as 33.86 petaflops per second.
It overtook Titan, installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is now ranked No. 2 with a performance of 17.59 petaflops per second.
Tianhe-2 marks China's return to the No. 1 position of the TOP500 list since November 2010, when Tianhe-1A was the top system. Tianhe-1A is now the No. 10 system on the list.
TOP500 editor Horst Simon, deputy director of the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, described Tianhe-2 as being "a great accomplishment" for China.
Tihanhe-2 demonstrates that China can build a large system with a string component of domestically developed technology and shows China's strong technology investments in high-performance computing (HPC), Simon told Xinhua.
William Gropp, director of the Parallel Computing Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, held the same opinion. He said China's investment in HPC shows how serious China is about being among the leaders in 21st century technology.
Gropp said that the commitment of China to HPC, and in particular to the continued and sustained development of new and better systems, will ensure that China is an important player in HPC.
Sequoia, another supercomputer developed by the United States, dropped one position and is now the No. 3 system with a performance of 17.17 petaflops per second, followed by Japan's K computer with 10.51 petaflops per second, and Mira in the United States with 8.59 petaflops per second.
Overall, the United States is the leader in supercomputing systems, taking up more than half of the entries in the list. As a nation, China now holds the No. 2 position with 65 entries, ahead of Japan, Britain, France and Germany.
"The U.S. continues to be the leading country in HPC, but the gap is closing," said Simon. He said the worldwide HPC distribution may be changing in the next decade.
According to Simon, countries that still lag behind such as India or Brazil are expected to invest more heavily and China could become an exporter for HPC technology to developing countries.
"There are many potentially big changes ahead, as many countries continue to industrialize and then recognize the value of HPC," Simon added.
The TOP500 list, released twice a year since June 1993, is considered the authoritative ranking of the world's supercomputers.
Xinhua, June 17, 2013
www.china.org.cn
A supercomputer developed by Chinese researchers was ranked on Monday as the world's fastest computing system, overtaking the former champion made by the United States.
According to TOP500, a project ranking the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world, Tianhe-2 developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, was capable of operating as fast as 33.86 petaflops per second.
It overtook Titan, installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is now ranked No. 2 with a performance of 17.59 petaflops per second.
Tianhe-2 marks China's return to the No. 1 position of the TOP500 list since November 2010, when Tianhe-1A was the top system. Tianhe-1A is now the No. 10 system on the list.
TOP500 editor Horst Simon, deputy director of the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, described Tianhe-2 as being "a great accomplishment" for China.
Tihanhe-2 demonstrates that China can build a large system with a string component of domestically developed technology and shows China's strong technology investments in high-performance computing (HPC), Simon told Xinhua.
William Gropp, director of the Parallel Computing Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, held the same opinion. He said China's investment in HPC shows how serious China is about being among the leaders in 21st century technology.
Gropp said that the commitment of China to HPC, and in particular to the continued and sustained development of new and better systems, will ensure that China is an important player in HPC.
Sequoia, another supercomputer developed by the United States, dropped one position and is now the No. 3 system with a performance of 17.17 petaflops per second, followed by Japan's K computer with 10.51 petaflops per second, and Mira in the United States with 8.59 petaflops per second.
Overall, the United States is the leader in supercomputing systems, taking up more than half of the entries in the list. As a nation, China now holds the No. 2 position with 65 entries, ahead of Japan, Britain, France and Germany.
"The U.S. continues to be the leading country in HPC, but the gap is closing," said Simon. He said the worldwide HPC distribution may be changing in the next decade.
According to Simon, countries that still lag behind such as India or Brazil are expected to invest more heavily and China could become an exporter for HPC technology to developing countries.
"There are many potentially big changes ahead, as many countries continue to industrialize and then recognize the value of HPC," Simon added.
The TOP500 list, released twice a year since June 1993, is considered the authoritative ranking of the world's supercomputers.
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How come the US didn't leapfrog so far ahead using American made Intel processors?
Though we hold No.1 position, the # of top 500 for us is down from last time. I think we have more than 70 last time.
I think money may be the issue. With more funding, I still think U.S. has the edge in building better/faster super computers.
However, China indeed catches up faster.
I think money may be the issue. With more funding, I still think U.S. has the edge in building better/faster super computers.
However, China indeed catches up faster.
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We still have much catching ups to do.
"Heaven operates by strength, hence one shall keep his perseverance at all time."
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I want to know what kind of dope you are smoking...
Tianhe-2 ARE USING INTEL PROCESSOR.....NOT USING CHINESE PROCESSOR.
quote from Top500
June 2013 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
Don't like the source that get the Chinese supercomputer to the top of Top500?? How about some Chinese source??
http://military.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2013/0617/c1011-21868316.html
translated to:
Although TianHe-2 still using intel Processor, the Dream of ever using Chinese homemade processor in the future generation Supercomputer is no longer unreachable. Tianhe-2 also reflect the positive development of Hardware, software and application in China.
In 2010, Tianhe-1 broke the monopoly of US and Japan and become the first supercomputer made in China......
really want to know what kind of stuff you have been smoking lately?? Or are you claiming Intel Xeon Processor or Xeon Phi are Chinese Tech??
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High Performance Computing Wire - Top 500 Results Reveal Global Acceleration, Balance Shift
June 17, 2013
Top 500 Results Reveal Global Acceleration, Balance Shift
Nicole Hemsoth
Moments ago the founders of the Top 500 supercomputer rankings unleashed the results of their 41st incarnation of the list at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany.
And unlike other years where heated speculation about the victors swirled before the show, this announcement of the winner came as little surprise. Word about the Xeon Phi-boosted Chinese Tianhe-2 system leaked, but was quickly validated by Dr. Jack Dongarra after his own visit to China in the last couple of weeks.
The initial reports rolled down the mountain following a gun-jumping presentation by the Chinese during the International HPC Forum in Changsha, China in late May during which all was (prematurely) revealed--in part, if one might speculate, to show the supercomputing dons that the fabled next-gen Milky Way was tangible, operational and ready to rock collective Linpack socks.
The real story during this iteration of benchmarks deviates from the dead heat races of highly similar top-end systems vying for slivers of performance differentiation. In fact, there hasnt been much change at all for the usual suspects that haunted Novembers rankings. Even the mighty Titans numbers are the same since the team decided to stable their race horse and use November results.
Some systems, including Sequoia shined a bit brighter with a fresh run of the benchmark. And while Titan was kicked to the number two slot, it still keeps its crown as one of the most efficient systems at the top, consuming 8.21 MW and hitting the 2.143 MFlops/W, just outpacing Sequoias 7.84 MW consumption, which packs 2,031.6 MFlops/W.
But Tianhe-2, with its 3 million processors, early-gen MIC cards and unique Chinese-crafted stacks from interconnect to inner software workings is what is sparking the conversational fuse today. And it comes as no surprise, because--and lets not mince words here--it blew everything out of the freakin water.
To put the above image from the Top500 presentation this morning in a bit more context, take a look at the side by side comparison of the two architectures in the chart below, paying specific attention to the power and cooling numbers in particular. Its not just that these are both relatively efficient systems for their size and our current expectations--its that the Chinese are taking a giant leap toward exascale, and are finding ways to stuff the power envelope.
And so what does this upset to the standard order of close top contender races really mean? The significance reaches across the themes of accelerators and co-processors as a complex, if not contradictory trend. It pushes new ideas about how to shove the steady curve of Moores law under the 25 MW umbrella...And of course, it does a fair job of shaking the global supercomputing technology markets westward-focused worldview.
To the last point, As Dongarra noted, Most of the features of the system were developed in China and they are only using Intel for the main compute part. That is, the interconnect, operating system, front-end processors and software tools are mainly Chinese in origin.
While the system offers some notable publicity for Intel, which still owns an 80.4% processor share across the Top 500 (of around 800 or so submitted systems), some see this as the dawn of a new era for foreign components and systems. While Tianhe-2 is not Godson based (which was the initial inkling before details leaked), its only a matter of time before China puts natively-built processor, accelerator and coprocessor capstones on its masterpieces.
Its not clear what the next big super out of the United States, the anticipated Trinity system at Los Alamos National Lab, will flop in at. But in case the world missed the message with the first Tianhe machine, China has signaled its entry into the supercomputing spectrum in earnest. As a nation, this June ranking reveals that China now is the second largest user of HPC, outpacing Japan, the UK, France and Germany--all supercomputer strongholds.
And then what? Most likely some new interconnect concepts matched with memory innovations that strike efficiency concerns lower to the ground. What we have then is a global supercomputing race that puts some bold new players into the game. If it werent for missing out on summer, its tempting to want to rush the clock forward to November just to see what happens from this tiny spark.
Top 500 founder Hans Meuer equated the announcement of the system as being as disruptive as the Earth Simulator, which was 11 years ago. It bumped off its rivals by 5x and set the stage for a new era...one that he says were entering, even if its sketchy what will smooth the curves of Moores Law.
As Horst Simon told us, if the total power consumption is 25 MW (including cooling) wed all like to see systems operate at that kind of power envelope but there is still the need to produce more energy efficient technology. We are going on a Moores law curve; the areas where improvement is needed is on interconnects and memory.
The problem is, the founding fathers we spoke with yesterday cant see what lies beyond the bend of the curve. Simon noted, Unlike in the past where we could see three or four years in the future, at this point, I dont see anything radically different coming up. We have reaped all the benefits from the standard architectures to manycore--the magic bullet has already been shot.
That magic bullet, of course, is the mighty accelerator.
Analysts agree across the board that accelerators will be the kings of the top supers--beyond the top ten in a few years. As Dongarra told us, however, if you look at the list, the number of machines with accelerators has gone down. However, if you look at the sum total of the 500 systems in terms of overall power, its 33 percent aggregate performance, mostly due to the big DoE machines that occupy the limelight.
Dongarra highlighted that its 33 percent aggregate with this list, but on the last list it was 22% and before that, just 11%.
Horst Simon explained that as of now, accelerators arent being used to much of an extent in the commercial systems theyve seen submitted. There is a bridging of gaps that needs to happen on the learning curve side but he says that the right tools for big businesses on big iron (GPUs matched with powerful database tools, for instance) will bring others on board with acceleration, evening out the list.
By the end of the year the Tianhe-2 super is fully operational at its temporary home at the National University for Defense Technology in Changsha, China. Before the year is out it will find its way to its permanent spot at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho and is trained to crunch a number of common supercomputing applications in the fields of biomedical research, climatology, manufacturing and beyond
Even with Trinity rising on the 2015-ish horizon, when asked how long Tianhe-2 will stand at the top, Dongarra laughed softly and said, a long time...probably a pretty long time.
June 17, 2013
Top 500 Results Reveal Global Acceleration, Balance Shift
Nicole Hemsoth
Moments ago the founders of the Top 500 supercomputer rankings unleashed the results of their 41st incarnation of the list at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany.
And unlike other years where heated speculation about the victors swirled before the show, this announcement of the winner came as little surprise. Word about the Xeon Phi-boosted Chinese Tianhe-2 system leaked, but was quickly validated by Dr. Jack Dongarra after his own visit to China in the last couple of weeks.
The initial reports rolled down the mountain following a gun-jumping presentation by the Chinese during the International HPC Forum in Changsha, China in late May during which all was (prematurely) revealed--in part, if one might speculate, to show the supercomputing dons that the fabled next-gen Milky Way was tangible, operational and ready to rock collective Linpack socks.
The real story during this iteration of benchmarks deviates from the dead heat races of highly similar top-end systems vying for slivers of performance differentiation. In fact, there hasnt been much change at all for the usual suspects that haunted Novembers rankings. Even the mighty Titans numbers are the same since the team decided to stable their race horse and use November results.
Some systems, including Sequoia shined a bit brighter with a fresh run of the benchmark. And while Titan was kicked to the number two slot, it still keeps its crown as one of the most efficient systems at the top, consuming 8.21 MW and hitting the 2.143 MFlops/W, just outpacing Sequoias 7.84 MW consumption, which packs 2,031.6 MFlops/W.
But Tianhe-2, with its 3 million processors, early-gen MIC cards and unique Chinese-crafted stacks from interconnect to inner software workings is what is sparking the conversational fuse today. And it comes as no surprise, because--and lets not mince words here--it blew everything out of the freakin water.
To put the above image from the Top500 presentation this morning in a bit more context, take a look at the side by side comparison of the two architectures in the chart below, paying specific attention to the power and cooling numbers in particular. Its not just that these are both relatively efficient systems for their size and our current expectations--its that the Chinese are taking a giant leap toward exascale, and are finding ways to stuff the power envelope.
And so what does this upset to the standard order of close top contender races really mean? The significance reaches across the themes of accelerators and co-processors as a complex, if not contradictory trend. It pushes new ideas about how to shove the steady curve of Moores law under the 25 MW umbrella...And of course, it does a fair job of shaking the global supercomputing technology markets westward-focused worldview.
To the last point, As Dongarra noted, Most of the features of the system were developed in China and they are only using Intel for the main compute part. That is, the interconnect, operating system, front-end processors and software tools are mainly Chinese in origin.
While the system offers some notable publicity for Intel, which still owns an 80.4% processor share across the Top 500 (of around 800 or so submitted systems), some see this as the dawn of a new era for foreign components and systems. While Tianhe-2 is not Godson based (which was the initial inkling before details leaked), its only a matter of time before China puts natively-built processor, accelerator and coprocessor capstones on its masterpieces.
Its not clear what the next big super out of the United States, the anticipated Trinity system at Los Alamos National Lab, will flop in at. But in case the world missed the message with the first Tianhe machine, China has signaled its entry into the supercomputing spectrum in earnest. As a nation, this June ranking reveals that China now is the second largest user of HPC, outpacing Japan, the UK, France and Germany--all supercomputer strongholds.
And then what? Most likely some new interconnect concepts matched with memory innovations that strike efficiency concerns lower to the ground. What we have then is a global supercomputing race that puts some bold new players into the game. If it werent for missing out on summer, its tempting to want to rush the clock forward to November just to see what happens from this tiny spark.
Top 500 founder Hans Meuer equated the announcement of the system as being as disruptive as the Earth Simulator, which was 11 years ago. It bumped off its rivals by 5x and set the stage for a new era...one that he says were entering, even if its sketchy what will smooth the curves of Moores Law.
As Horst Simon told us, if the total power consumption is 25 MW (including cooling) wed all like to see systems operate at that kind of power envelope but there is still the need to produce more energy efficient technology. We are going on a Moores law curve; the areas where improvement is needed is on interconnects and memory.
The problem is, the founding fathers we spoke with yesterday cant see what lies beyond the bend of the curve. Simon noted, Unlike in the past where we could see three or four years in the future, at this point, I dont see anything radically different coming up. We have reaped all the benefits from the standard architectures to manycore--the magic bullet has already been shot.
That magic bullet, of course, is the mighty accelerator.
Analysts agree across the board that accelerators will be the kings of the top supers--beyond the top ten in a few years. As Dongarra told us, however, if you look at the list, the number of machines with accelerators has gone down. However, if you look at the sum total of the 500 systems in terms of overall power, its 33 percent aggregate performance, mostly due to the big DoE machines that occupy the limelight.
Dongarra highlighted that its 33 percent aggregate with this list, but on the last list it was 22% and before that, just 11%.
Horst Simon explained that as of now, accelerators arent being used to much of an extent in the commercial systems theyve seen submitted. There is a bridging of gaps that needs to happen on the learning curve side but he says that the right tools for big businesses on big iron (GPUs matched with powerful database tools, for instance) will bring others on board with acceleration, evening out the list.
By the end of the year the Tianhe-2 super is fully operational at its temporary home at the National University for Defense Technology in Changsha, China. Before the year is out it will find its way to its permanent spot at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho and is trained to crunch a number of common supercomputing applications in the fields of biomedical research, climatology, manufacturing and beyond
Even with Trinity rising on the 2015-ish horizon, when asked how long Tianhe-2 will stand at the top, Dongarra laughed softly and said, a long time...probably a pretty long time.
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you are silly
where have I claimed the CPUs are made in China?
you are consistently showing you have a serious problem in reading comprehension, logical thinking or ignorance in the English language or all of them; despite your claim you was an English teacher, you are miserable! And did you claim you work for intel too?
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