Top500 Supercomputers Nov 2013- Tianhe 2, China

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November 2013


Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 42nd edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The list was announced Nov. 18 at the SC13 conference in Denver, Colo.

Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, remains the No. 2 system. It achieved 17.59 Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. Titan is one of the most energy efficient systems on the list consuming a total of 8.21 MW and delivering 2.143 gigaflops/W.

Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is again the No. 3 system. It was first delivered in 2011 and achieved 17.17 Plop/s on the Linpack benchmark.

Fujitsu’s K computer installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan, is the No. 4 system with 10.51 Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark.

Mira, a BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, is No. 5 with 8.59 Plop/s on the Linpack benchmark.

The new entry in the TOP10 is at No. 6 –Piz Daint, a Cray XC30 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland and now the most powerful system in Europe. Piz Daint achieved 6.27 Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. Piz Daint is also the most energy efficient system in the TOP10 consuming a total of 2.33 MW and delivering 2.7 Gflops/W.

Rounding out the TOP10 are Stampede at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas, Austin, which slipped to No. 7; a BlueGene/Q system called JUQEEN installed at the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany is No. 8; No. 9 is taken by Vulcan, another IBM BlueGene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and No. 10 is the third system in Europe, the SuperMUC, installed at Leibniz Rechenzentrum in Germany.

The total combined performance of all 500 systems on the list is 250 Pflop/s. Half of the total performance is achieved by the top 17 systems on the list, with the other half of total performance spread among the remaining 483 systems.

November 2013 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I really love the name Tianhe (Heavenly River) for a supercomputer.

Makes me think of the stars and the galaxies. Since Tianhe is the name of our own galaxy (the Milky Way).

 

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Actually there is no change to the top 5 positions. The Nov 13 list is the same as that of June 13


New No. 6 is Piz Daint - Cray XC30, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Aries interconnect , NVIDIA K20x
Cray Inc by Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)
Switzerland

Our Tianhe !A has dropped from 10 to 12.

The people are getting tired a bit of this half yearly race and if there is no need then status quo
You have to spend millions $ just to keep the clones running, let alone building a new one at top speed.

 

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We still have 63 in Top500:

7 in top 100 (ranking #1, 12, 21, 40, 42, 63, 86)
5 in 101-200 ( ranking # 109, 182, 183, 195, 197)
6 in the next 100 (ranking # 201, 204, 237, 270, 294, 298)

Then the balance and their lower rankings

Hong Kong gets 2, ranking @ 171 and 496
Taiwan has 1, ranking @243

USA is still overwhelmingly dominant having 264 in the list
Jpn 28 clones in the list which comes third then UK 23 and France 22 which round up the top 5 countries by no. of supercomputers in the list

 

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Credit: vpic.video.qq.com
China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer, twice as fast as DoE’s Titan

Credit: people.com.cn

Beyond the glut of x86 compute capacity, though, Tianhe-2 is notable for another reason: Except for the CPUs, almost all of the other components were made in China. The front-end system, which manages the actual operation of all the compute nodes, consists of Galaxy FT-1500 processors — 16-core SPARC chips designed and built by China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). The interconnect (pictured below), also designed and constructed by the NUDT, consists of 13 576-port optoelectronic switches that connect each of the compute nodes via a fat tree topology. The operating system, Kylin Linux, was also developed by NUDT.

China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer, twice as fast as DoE’s Titan, shocks the world by arriving two years early | ExtremeTech
June 24, 2013

 

[Jlaw]

The cpu is the most important part of the computer, but not made in China

 

[Destro]

The cpu is the most important part of the computer, but not made in China

Just be patient, only a matter of time before all components are made in China.

When that happens, China can export it around the world. Watch the white boys start crying when we export our fully indigenous supercomputers to Ira n

 

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The cpu is the most important part of the computer, but not made in China

I am not overly worried about it
We are getting there!

And this draws us even closer, read the following Jan 2012 report:

New era in supercomputing is born – China’s homegrown Sunway Bluelight is operational

Posted in Tech blog on January 26th, 2012 by Pingdom
New era in supercomputing is born – China's homegrown Sunway Bluelight is operational

China has come a long way fast in the world of supercomputers and now occupies the number two and number four spots on the Top 500 list .

Now the country has taken another major step forward by being only the third country in the world, after Japan and the USA, to launch a supercomputer made out of processors made in the country.

Just a few days ago, the Sunway Bluelight, a supercomputer that uses processors designed and built in China, was put into operation.

China is now number two

On the latest Top 500 list , from November 2011, only four out of the 500 computers use non-USA processors, and China is number two behind USA with 75 supercomputers on the list.

Japan is currently top of the supercomputing world with the Fujitsu-built K Computer , capable of more than 10 Petaflops per second in processing prowess.

China’s Tianhe-1A, then capable of 2.5 Petaflops, held the throne for a while in 2010, but since then China has not topped the list again.

Surely the Chinese authorities are keen on reclaiming the throne and perhaps they can do so with the Sunway Bluelight MPP. It is presently at number 14 on the Top 500 list.

Sunway Bluelight MPP

But it’s not for its performance, nor for its energy efficiency that the Sunway Bluelight is making headlines. It’s because it’s completely built with Chinese-designed and manufactured processors.

The Sunway Bluelight MPP was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, eastern China. It consists of of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, capable of performing 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Put in another way, 1,000 trillion calculations per second is a Petaflop.

According to China Daily the supercomputer was put into operation just a few days ago, something also noted by an article in Inside HPC , which also included the following video:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/01/26/new-era-in-supercomputing-is-born-chinas-homegrown-sunway-bluelight-is-operational/

The supercomputing future is interesting
No doubt, there is a lot happening in the field of supercomputing, much of which is never known in wider circles. Us geeks at Pingdom try to keep up with developments and report what we find especially compelling to you.

You may also want to go read our article where we compare the K Computer to Apple’s iPad. We try to figure out how many iPads it takes to match the supercomputer’s processing power.

 

[ChinaToday]

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