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Saturday, October 30, 2010

World’s Fastest Super Computer- Tianhe-1A

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World’s fastest supercomputer the Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology in China, has set a new performance record at 2.507 petaflops via 7,168 NVIDIA GPUs and 14,336 CPUs, unseating the Cray XT5 Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Labs as the world record holder.

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It will be operated as an open access system for high-powered, large scale scientific computations. Costing $88 million, Tianhe-1A weighs 155 tons and consumes 4.04 megawatts of electricity.

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