China uses the world's fastest computers

The Tianhe-1A computer, China's fastest computer, will be widely used, the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (NSCC-TJ), announced Monday.

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Tianhe 1A uses more than 7,000 Nvidia graphics chips and more than 14,000 traditional CPUs. This system can perform more than 1 million calculations per second (petaflops) and can achieve 4.7 petaflops with the highest performance.

China's Tianhe 1A supercomputer is a computer
China's fastest in 2010

Tianhe 1A debuted in November 2010 and holds the No. 1 position in the top 500 fastest computers in the world. However, Tianhe 1A quickly cedes the champion position to Japan's K supercomputer when this computer was born in June 2011.

Mr. Liu Guangming, Director of the NSCC-TJ Center, said Monday that it will bring Tianhe-1A into widespread use in many areas and in the future will continue to produce a superior generation of computers on the ground. micro global.

Last year, Tianhe-1A was only used in some areas such as oil and gas exploitation, biotechnology, medicine, animation, film making, high-end equipment design and geographic information systems.

'Tianhe-1A is an open platform and the Center's creative endeavor. We look forward to sharing this wonderful achievement with the world , 'said Mr. Meng Xiangfei, Application Manager of NSCC-TJ.