Intel Powers World’s Fastest Supercomputer

[HardOCP News]

Intel Corporation today announced that its Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, announced earlier this year, are at the heart of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A. Located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, Tianhe-1A contains 14,396 Intel processors accompanied by accelerator cards, and has demonstrated groundbreaking performance of 2.57 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second). In partnership with Inspur, a computer manufacturer in China, Intel worked closely with the National Supercomputing Center and its technology partners to achieve this groundbreaking performance.

 

[Kenjiwing]

What is this supercomputer for?

 

[WozniakMac]

Crysis 2

 

[Tephnos]

Crysis 2 would bring this thing to it's knees.

 

[WozniakMac]

Probably, but you gotta start somewhere.

 

[Monkey God]

What is this supercomputer for?

Reverse engineering western technology.

 

[Bahamut]

42, of course.

 

[TheWeazmeister]

What funny is that Intel and Nvidia both have a "feather in their cap" on this one...i.e. check out the other front page news item with the top5 supercomputers.

 

[DeathPrincess]

Crysis 2 would bring this thing to it's knees.

It's unlikely, Crysis 2 is a console port

 

[DeathPrincess]

This would be lots of fun to overclock...but i'm not sure if you could run prime95 on it, and all of those waterblocks would be a pain in the ass.

 

[RandomNY]

Can it get decent load times on Flight Sim X?

 

[Le037]

Reverse engineering western technology.

Lol.

 

[H@RD5]

Reverse engineering western technology.

^this!

 

[Revdarian]

When we run this story vs http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1561765 , well i am sorry but i will take Nvidia's side in the meaning that i bet that most of the efficiency comes from the GPU's, due to the other high efficiency super computers having them as the common theme.

 

[Methadras]

Chi-coms shouldn't be allowed anywhere near this tech. Let them by PS3's from the Japs and hook them up instead.

 

[Vicinity]

Bet it could run the PS2 emulator at at least 30 frames a second.

 

[CMD]

Too late, they have our manufacturing of these items.

 

[hfnica]

We all would like to know what this super computer is for. I will bet it is or something that will be quite big.

 

[/usr/home]

We all would like to know what this super computer is for. I will bet it is or something that will be quite big.

Thanks tips.

 

[MrGuvernment]

i love the

accompanied by accelerator cards,

that they dont mention it is NVIDIA cards with CUDA in the thing............ Intel jealous........ that the i think 7k NVIDIA card can put out more then the 14k CPU's....

 

[keshavcharya]

This kicks so much ass!

wtfpwned.