The first supercomputer built entirely using domestically produced processors
On June 20, 2016, my country’s first independently developed supercomputer The "Sunway TaihuLight" built with domestic processors won the world supercomputing championship and became the fastest supercomputer in the world. (Recommended learning: PHP video tutorial)
At 3 pm on June 20, 2016, the international TOP500 organization announced the latest ranking of the world's TOP500 supercomputers in Frankfurt, Germany. The self-developed "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer has become the fastest supercomputer in the world.
The "Sunway TaihuLight" computer system was developed by the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center with the support of the National 863 Program and settled in the National Supercomputing Wuxi Center. According to data released by the international TOP500 rankings, the peak performance of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer system has reached 1.25 billion times per second, the sustained performance has reached 9.3 billion times per second, and the performance power consumption ratio is 6 billion times per watt. . These three key indicators rank first in the world. It has also become the world's first supercomputer with a running speed of more than 1 billion billion times, and the measured speed is three times that of the second place. Its computing power in one minute is equivalent to 7 billion people around the world using calculators to calculate continuously for 32 years. At the same time, it is also the first supercomputer in the world that uses all domestic processors in my country.
Supercomputers are mainly used in major scientific research, cutting-edge national defense technology and large-scale computing projects and data processing tasks in the national economy, such as aerospace, large-scale meteorological analysis, new drug development, genetic sequence analysis, etc. Currently, it has undertaken data calculation tasks for more than 30 major projects including climate analysis, earth environment simulation, etc.
The application results of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer have also been internationally recognized. The "Gordon Bell Prize" can be called the Nobel Prize in the field of supercomputer applications. Before this, China had never won it, or even been nominated. In 2016, among the nominations for this award, three projects of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer were shortlisted, becoming a major breakthrough for my country in this field.
The "Sunway·TaihuLight" supercomputer is my country's first supercomputer in the world built entirely with domestically produced processors. Its successful development also marks a breakthrough in the development of supercomputers in my country. Long-term technical limitations.
Before the launch of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer, my country's "Tianhe-2" had repeatedly won the first place in the world's top 500 supercomputers, but it used Intel processors and was subject to restrictions. In April last year, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued an announcement deciding to reject Intel's application to sell "Xeon" chips to China's National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou for the "Tianhe-2" system upgrade. The National Supercomputing Center in Changsha, Guangzhou Four national supercomputing centers, including the Center, the Tianjin Center and the National University of Defense Technology, have been included in the export control list.
The "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer independently developed the "Sunway 26010" many-core processor through technical research, thus breaking the foreign technology blockade, although it is only about one inch size, but its calculation speed reaches 3 trillion times per second, which is equivalent to the calculation speed of 20 mainstream notebooks currently on the market, and the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer is composed of 40,960 such processors.
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