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A supercomputer without GPUs?

Are the Chinese crazy? The Chinese grabbed headlines in 2010 with the announcement of their home built Tianhe-1 supercomputer, that delivered 1.2 PFLOPS, aided by AMD GPUs. The Tianhe-1A, a companion system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, delivers pushed the performance up to 4.7 peak PFLOPS. The National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin is now planning a new supercomputer, ...

Jon Peddie

Are the Chinese crazy? The Chinese grabbed headlines in 2010 with the announcement of their home built Tianhe-1 supercomputer, that delivered 1.2 PFLOPS, aided by AMD GPUs. The Tianhe-1A, a companion system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, delivers pushed the performance up to 4.7 peak PFLOPS. The National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin is now planning a new supercomputer, that will deliver 240 or more PFLOPS exceeding Summit, a supercomputer under construction at Oak Ridge National Lab, which is due to light up this spring and deliver over 200 peak petaflops (PPFLOPS?). Some think it could be pushed to
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