Made in China processors power world`s fastest supercomputer

20.08.2011 [11:09]
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Baku, August 20 (AZERTAC). China achieved a major breakthrough in the development of supercomputing technology after it created a core processor for the world`s fastest supercomputer.

China already has the title for creating the world`s fastest supercomputer -- the Tianhe-1A system. However, the central processing units (CPUs) of the system, until recently, had been manufactured by American chip giant Intel Corp.

After the National University of Defense Technology`s (NUDT) success in developing the FeiTeng-1000 (FT-1000) CPU, Li Nan, director of the university`s Tianhe project office, said that China has overcome the challenge of manufacturing a high-end processor.

The Tianhe-1A system took the top spot in the Top 500 list of the world`s most powerful supercomputers last November, a biannual ranking compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim in Germany, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee.

Made in China processors power world`s fastest supercomputer

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