Thursday, June 16, 2016

Tianhe-2 World Fastest Supercomputer Specifiction

In previous post, you can see the top ten list of world fastest supercomputer on earth. Tianhe-2, located at National Super Computer Center, also dominates the world fastest supercomputer list for June 2013, November 2013, June 2014 and November 2014.To build this fastest supercomputer, it costs $390 million.

Location: National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou China
Architecture: 32,000 Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C with 2.200 GHz 48,000 Xeon Phi 31S1P
Power: 17.6 MW (24 MW with cooling)
Cores: 3,120,000
Operating System: Kylin Linux
Memory: 1,375 TiB (1,000 TiB CPU and 375 TiB coprocessor)
Storage: 12.4 PB
Speed: 33.86 PFLOPS
Cost: 2.4 billion Yuan (US$390 million)
Application:
Simulation, Analysis
Government security
Astrophysics
Climate science
Nuclear energy

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