China Chases Supercomputing Performance Crown
China Chases Supercomputing Performance Crown
Posted 06/07/2010 at 4:40am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, China is home to two of the top ten machines, including Nebulae, the second fastest supercomputer on the planet.
"China's ambitions to enter the supercomputing arena have become obvious," said the compilers of the list.
In terms of theoretical peak performance, Nebulae leads the pack with 2.98 petaflops, the highest ever on the Top 500 list. Nebulae hasn't actually achieved that level of performance, however, so far topping out at 1.271 PFlop/s. Jaguar, the world's fastest supercomputer, resides in Tennessee and holds the record with 1.75 PFlop/s, though its theoretical peak performance is 2.3 PFlop/s.
China is now home to 24 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.
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VaMage
June 07, 2010 at 10:23pm
I'm not really up on the state of the art of encryption, but does the U.S.A. still use RSA?
Is having the fastest supercomputer in the world still a key, excuse the pun, to calculating primes?
I'm aware that the algorithm is more important then mere brute force, and I know what's been accomplished
using distributed networks, which is why I'm asking.It's just that when I hear that a country whose hackers often seem to be acting in the interest of their country's government, it being really unhealthy to do otherwise in China, and when that government just happens to be a repressive totallitarian regime, I start wondering...
I know I'm just paranoid, it's not like China has done anything serious in what it feels like weeks now.
VaMage,
American by Birth, But Southern by the Grace of God.
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