News

The Sunway TaihuLight is a Monolithic Supercomputer

When it comes to supercomputers, everyone is looking for the next best thing. From building multi-core processors to creating the first quantum computer, everyone is looking at building the greatest computer and China’s latest attempt at a supercomputer comes completely from the country, no US parts included.

The non-US system is titled the Sunway TaihuLight and has a theoretical peak performance of 124.5 petaflops. While this may not seem like much in the size of numbers you can think of a petaflop as one quadrillion floating point operations a second, a number that seems to grow bigger every time you consider it. To put it open for comparison, the next fastest computer was China’s Tianhe-2 which had just over half of the TaihuLight’s performance at just 54.9 petaflops.

Described by Jack Dongarra, a professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, stated that the creators have proven that the TaihuLight is more than “just a stunt machine” by running “sizeable applications” from the real world such as big data and advanced manufacturing software.

The reason for the China only part was courtesy of the US banning Intel from supplying China with their Xeon chips, forcing the supercomputing research centers to look at alternatives closer to home.

Gareth Andrews

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Possible Price Revealed

According to a new report, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU will be very expensive. It…

6 hours ago

AMD Krackan Processor with 6 Zen 5 and Zen 5c Cores for Budget AI Laptops Leaked

A new AMD processor in the form of an engineering model has been leaked in…

6 hours ago

SK Hynix Begins Production of First 321-Layer NAND Chips

SK Hynix has claimed to be the first company to mass-produce 321-layer NAND memory chips.…

6 hours ago

Trust Gaming GXT 609 Zoxa 2.0 PC Speakers

SOUNDS GREAT – Full stereo sound (12W peak power) gives your setup a booming audio…

10 hours ago

PowerA Wired Controller for Nintendo Switch

Special Edition Yoshi design Ergonomic controller shape with Nintendo Switch button layout Detachable 10ft (3m)…

10 hours ago

Logitech G Saitek PRO Flight Rudder Pedals

Fluid Motion: These flight rudder pedals are smooth and accurate that enable precise control over…

10 hours ago