China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors

concealment writes "As the U.S. launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops, China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer will run at 100 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second), according to the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center, where the machine will be housed. Tianhe-2 could help keep China competitive with the future supercomputers of other countries, as industry experts estimate machines will start reaching 1,000-petaflop performance by 2018." And, naturally, it's planned to use a domestically developed MIPS processor

Yeah right

[Austerity Empowers]

They're using domestically built copies of MIPS processors they copied from someone else (usually wrongly), stringing them together and proving that 2+2=5.

Re:1000 pflops is 1 exaflop right?

[Anonymous Coward]

If we can accurately model an ant's brain, down to the individual neuron, in the next 100 years or so, I'll be impressed.

If you can do that without violating any patents, EVERYONE would be impressed.

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100% correct

[evil_aaronm]

And any answer it gives will be deemed 100% correct, even if it's not. Get used to, "2 + 2 = 5, and it always has. How dare you question the accuracy of our machine!!"