China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has been fixed as the many absolute in the world.
Confirmation came with the announcement of the ultimate list of the Top 500 supercomputers on the planet.
Tianhe-1A has a summit speed of 2.57 petaflops, far aloft than the US XT5 Jaguar that can succeed 1.76 petaflops.
The list moreover reveals poignant changes in the technology used to power the machines and the nations hosting the many absolute ones.
Unconfirmed reports that Tianhe-1A would take the tip mark on the list emerged in late October. Since then no other more absolute computers machines have emerged to wallop it off the number a position.
Located at China's National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin sufficient of the machine's estimate power comes from chips more typically found in graphics cards. It is approaching to be carrying out simulations to help Chinese continue forecasts and to help with work to fix up undersea oil fields.
Of the tip 4 machines on the list, 3 are right away mostly built around graphics processors. By difference the US Jaguar supercomputer that Tianhe-1A has pushed in to second place is built around more normal CPUs typically used in desktop computers.
The tip 7 supercomputers on the list can right away all bring out at least a petaflop that is the homogeneous of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
The ultimate Top 500 list moreover reveals that the US is slipping down the rankings of supercomputer superpowers. Only 5 of the tip 10 machines are in the US, a change from other years in that American supercomputers have typically dominated the upper regions of the Top 500 list.
The US maintains its mark as the republic with the many supercomputers in the Top 500 list and China is right away second. However, it has a long way to go to grasp up as the US has 275 machines in the tip 500 and China has usually 42.
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