China and AMD conquer the rating of supercomputers
Yesterday the 34th rating of the world's most powerful supercomputers Top 500 was published, in which a number of changes occurred. The total capacity of the world's 500 best supercomputers has increased from 22.6 to 27.6 petaflops in six months. And the leader changed: the Jaguar supercomputer (1.76 petaflops) came out on top, after the upgrade at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
For the first time, the Top 500 also included a Chinese supercomputer, and immediately to fifth place. The breakthrough was made by the Tianhe-1 machine (average productivity of 563.1 teraflops, peak - 1.2 petaflops) on a hybrid basis of Intel-AMD. Here it is, the brainchild of the National University of Defense Technologies of China.
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A couple of weeks before the Top 500 was published, the Chinese had already set their sights on the third place and said that they had become the second country in the world, which reached the milestone of 1 petaflops. But they are hard to miscalculate on both points. The place was taken only by the fifth, and 1 petaflops was taken simultaneously with the Germans .
The most powerful Russian computer " Lomonosov " (350 teraflops) is in 12th place.
Another interesting fact: AMD has increased its advantage over its rival Intel in the battle of the most productive systems. The small firm owns three (!) First places in the Top 500, fourth place at the IBM PowerPC, and the best system on Intel can boast only a modest fifth result.
However, the giant takes quantity: 80% of supercomputers from the rating are made based on Intel. Intel’s quantitative superiority looks rather strange, considering that AMD can make supercomputers much more powerful, and AMD processors are known to be cheaper than competitors. Is it also not without "kickbacks" that Intel is notorious for in the mass PC market?
For the first time, the Top 500 also included a Chinese supercomputer, and immediately to fifth place. The breakthrough was made by the Tianhe-1 machine (average productivity of 563.1 teraflops, peak - 1.2 petaflops) on a hybrid basis of Intel-AMD. Here it is, the brainchild of the National University of Defense Technologies of China.
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A couple of weeks before the Top 500 was published, the Chinese had already set their sights on the third place and said that they had become the second country in the world, which reached the milestone of 1 petaflops. But they are hard to miscalculate on both points. The place was taken only by the fifth, and 1 petaflops was taken simultaneously with the Germans .
The most powerful Russian computer " Lomonosov " (350 teraflops) is in 12th place.
Another interesting fact: AMD has increased its advantage over its rival Intel in the battle of the most productive systems. The small firm owns three (!) First places in the Top 500, fourth place at the IBM PowerPC, and the best system on Intel can boast only a modest fifth result.
However, the giant takes quantity: 80% of supercomputers from the rating are made based on Intel. Intel’s quantitative superiority looks rather strange, considering that AMD can make supercomputers much more powerful, and AMD processors are known to be cheaper than competitors. Is it also not without "kickbacks" that Intel is notorious for in the mass PC market?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/75487/
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