Roll the drum boys and girls. We have yet another winner from the East. They might not have made it in the FIFA World Cup, but they’ve the world’s fastest supercomputer yo! China just passed the US and the world with their latest Tianhe-1A, fully operational at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, scored 2.507 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. That moves it past Cray’s 2.3 petaflops Jaguar located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Tianhe-1A achieved the record using 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs consuming 4.04 megawatts. That’s still quite some steps to 10 petaflops, but we’ll see how the Tianhe-1A scores in next week’s Top500 supercomputers list.

SOURCE via Nvidia