จีนเตรียมเปิดตัว ซุปเปอร์คอมพิวเตอร์ความเร็ว 100 Petaflop ในระยะเวลา 1 ปีนับจากนี้
นอกจากนี้แล้ว คอมพิวเตอร์นี้ยังใช้ cpu ของจีนอีกต่างหาก
ตอนนี้ อุตสาหกรรม ชิพคอมพิวเตอร์ CPU ของจีนกำลังมาแรง
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China May Develop Two 100 Petaflop Machines Within a Year
Within the next 12 months, China expects to be operating not one but two 100 Petaflop computers, each containing (different) Chinese-made processors, and both coming online about a year before the United States’ 100 Petaflop machines being developed under the Coral initiative.
Ironically, the CPU for one machine appears very similar to a technology abandoned by the USA in 2007, and the US Government, through its export embargo, has encouraged China to develop its own accelerator for the other machine.
As reported on the Scientific Computing World website, in a separate move to acquire mastery of microprocessor technologies, China’s state owned Tsinghua Unigroup has made a bid to acquire US semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology for $23 billion, in what could be one of the biggest acquisitions of a US company by a Chinese firm.
In a further assertion of technological ambition, China’s domestic HPC vendors were highly visible at the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt in July where they talked to Scientific Computing World about their plans to expand overseas.
Highlighting the role reversal between China and the USA, the Chinese computer company Inspur intends to open a US manufacturing plant this year. It is a contrast to the recent past, where once it was US companies who outsourced manufacturing to China. Inspur already has an R&D centre in San Jose, California.
Meantime, another Chinese supercomputing company, Sugon, is planning a trade mission to the UK in September of this year to find partners for its overseas expansion. It too has plans to invest overseas, to develop expertise in, and familiarity with, its systems and products.
Huawei was also exhibiting at ISC High Performance. It has, of course, long had a dominant position in the telecommunications business, but it has been expanding into cloud servers and more recently into HPC. Its cluster for the Alibaba Group in China ranks 115 in the current Top500. Now it too is seeking partnerships with distributors and integrators in Europe and North America.
Also with a strong presence at the show was Lenovo, which originally manufactured PCs, tablets, and mobile phones, and which acquired IBM’s x86 server business last year, including not only the commercial computing but also the high-performance computing side. Lenovo marked that it had got serious about HPC when it opened a European technology centre in Stuttgart earlier this year. The company sells its very high-end systems direct, but also has partnerships with integrators in Europe and around the world.
Chinese RISC processor
Information in the public domain at the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt in July suggested that China is developing a 100 Petaflop machine that will use its own CPU, designed in China. The computer is expected to start operating before the middle of next year.
Hitherto, international attention has focused on the Tianhe-2 computer developed by the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) and sited at the National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou, largely because it retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system for the fifth consecutive timewhen the most recent Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was announced in the middle of July.
However, the first Chinese machine to reach 100 Petaflops may be one being developed by the Jiangnan Institute of Computer Technology in Wuxi, near Shanghai. It will use a next-generation, Chinese designed and manufactured, ShenWei chip. A ShenWei processor, the SW1600, currently powers the Sunway BlueLight, which is already in operation at the National Supercomputer Centre in Jinan, and which ranked 86 in the Top500 published in July.
ShenWei is a RISC and not an x86 processor, so it requires its own instruction set. Both system and application software will have to be customized for it, thus making programming and use of the machine more complex.
The China Accelerator
The second domestically designed chip will be the ‘China Accelerator’ that the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) is developing for the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. As a result of the US embargo on Intel exporting any more Phi co-processors to the NUDT, the upgrade to the Tianhe-2 that will take it to 100 PFlops has been delayed until later in 2016. However, the effect has been to encourage the domestic development of Chinese co-processors.
The interconnection topology for the Tianhe system is an optic-electronic hybrid. The NUDT had already created the interconnects, using high-radix Network Routing Chips (NRC) and high-speed Network Interface Chips (NIC), both of which were designed by Chinese engineers and are Chinese intellectual property.
Since the next-generation ShenWei will be based on its own CPU chip and the co-processors for Tianhe-2 are being developed at the NUDT, China will enter the 100 Petaflop era with its own CPU, accelerator, and interconnect technologies.
100 Petaflop นี่ประมาณเท่าไหร่ครับ ซุปเปอร์คอมพิวเตอร์
นอกจากนี้แล้ว คอมพิวเตอร์นี้ยังใช้ cpu ของจีนอีกต่างหาก
ตอนนี้ อุตสาหกรรม ชิพคอมพิวเตอร์ CPU ของจีนกำลังมาแรง
ต่อไป intel จะมีคู่แข่งแล้วน่าจะสูสี
intel จะเหมือนกับ โกดักไหม
China May Develop Two 100 Petaflop Machines Within a Year
Within the next 12 months, China expects to be operating not one but two 100 Petaflop computers, each containing (different) Chinese-made processors, and both coming online about a year before the United States’ 100 Petaflop machines being developed under the Coral initiative.
Ironically, the CPU for one machine appears very similar to a technology abandoned by the USA in 2007, and the US Government, through its export embargo, has encouraged China to develop its own accelerator for the other machine.
As reported on the Scientific Computing World website, in a separate move to acquire mastery of microprocessor technologies, China’s state owned Tsinghua Unigroup has made a bid to acquire US semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology for $23 billion, in what could be one of the biggest acquisitions of a US company by a Chinese firm.
In a further assertion of technological ambition, China’s domestic HPC vendors were highly visible at the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt in July where they talked to Scientific Computing World about their plans to expand overseas.
Highlighting the role reversal between China and the USA, the Chinese computer company Inspur intends to open a US manufacturing plant this year. It is a contrast to the recent past, where once it was US companies who outsourced manufacturing to China. Inspur already has an R&D centre in San Jose, California.
Meantime, another Chinese supercomputing company, Sugon, is planning a trade mission to the UK in September of this year to find partners for its overseas expansion. It too has plans to invest overseas, to develop expertise in, and familiarity with, its systems and products.
Huawei was also exhibiting at ISC High Performance. It has, of course, long had a dominant position in the telecommunications business, but it has been expanding into cloud servers and more recently into HPC. Its cluster for the Alibaba Group in China ranks 115 in the current Top500. Now it too is seeking partnerships with distributors and integrators in Europe and North America.
Also with a strong presence at the show was Lenovo, which originally manufactured PCs, tablets, and mobile phones, and which acquired IBM’s x86 server business last year, including not only the commercial computing but also the high-performance computing side. Lenovo marked that it had got serious about HPC when it opened a European technology centre in Stuttgart earlier this year. The company sells its very high-end systems direct, but also has partnerships with integrators in Europe and around the world.
Chinese RISC processor
Information in the public domain at the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt in July suggested that China is developing a 100 Petaflop machine that will use its own CPU, designed in China. The computer is expected to start operating before the middle of next year.
Hitherto, international attention has focused on the Tianhe-2 computer developed by the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) and sited at the National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou, largely because it retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system for the fifth consecutive timewhen the most recent Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was announced in the middle of July.
However, the first Chinese machine to reach 100 Petaflops may be one being developed by the Jiangnan Institute of Computer Technology in Wuxi, near Shanghai. It will use a next-generation, Chinese designed and manufactured, ShenWei chip. A ShenWei processor, the SW1600, currently powers the Sunway BlueLight, which is already in operation at the National Supercomputer Centre in Jinan, and which ranked 86 in the Top500 published in July.
ShenWei is a RISC and not an x86 processor, so it requires its own instruction set. Both system and application software will have to be customized for it, thus making programming and use of the machine more complex.
The China Accelerator
The second domestically designed chip will be the ‘China Accelerator’ that the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) is developing for the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. As a result of the US embargo on Intel exporting any more Phi co-processors to the NUDT, the upgrade to the Tianhe-2 that will take it to 100 PFlops has been delayed until later in 2016. However, the effect has been to encourage the domestic development of Chinese co-processors.
The interconnection topology for the Tianhe system is an optic-electronic hybrid. The NUDT had already created the interconnects, using high-radix Network Routing Chips (NRC) and high-speed Network Interface Chips (NIC), both of which were designed by Chinese engineers and are Chinese intellectual property.
Since the next-generation ShenWei will be based on its own CPU chip and the co-processors for Tianhe-2 are being developed at the NUDT, China will enter the 100 Petaflop era with its own CPU, accelerator, and interconnect technologies.