Speaking to the people behind the TOP500 list, the National Supercomputing Centre's director, Prof. The list, published twice a year, ranks the world's most powerful computers. LINPACK BENCHMARK SUNWAY TAIHULIGHT UPGRADEIn fact, it was reported that the Tianhe-2 was supposed to get an upgrade of new Xeon Phi processors which would have upgraded its capabilities greatly.Įarlier today also marked the first time ever that China had more supercomputers on the TOP500 list than the United States, 167 for China vs 165 for the US. This is on par with Intel's leading Xeon Phi chips.Īctually, Sunway TaihuLight came online earlier than expected because of a more concentrated effort by Chinese researchers to get ShenWei ready in the face of an April 2015 trade embargo by the US that banned the export of ultra high-end processors such as the Xeon Phi. The heart of this new supercomputer is a new Chinese-made chip called ShenWei which is capable of hitting 3 teraflops. Sunway TaihuLight will be used for various engineering and research projects in such fields as climate studies, life science research and data analytics. Past Chinese supercomputers such as the Tianhe-2 used components from foreign vendors such as American chip giant, Intel, whose Xeon CPU's provided much of the grunt in the Tianhe-2.
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