DeepComp 6800 world's 14th fastest supercomputer
( 2003-11-20 09:01) (China Daily)
The Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy released on November 16 the
latest list of top 500 supercomputers in the world. The DeepComp 6800 developed
by the Legend Group Corp. with a sustained performance of 4.183 trillion
floating point operations per second (TFlops) for the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) ranked the 14th, an ever-highest for China-made supercomputer in
the list.
The ranking of DeepComp 6800 is quite outstanding in the list since those
ahead of it are all made by the United States and Japan. Among the top 500
supercomputers, there are another two Legend-made computers, both of which
DeepComp 1800 serial products, ranking the 82nd and 188th respectively. In the
top 500 list released in November last year, a DeepComp 1800 achieving 1.046
TFlops ranked 43rd.
The Earth Simulator built by NEC Corp.for Japan's Eearth Simulation Center
remained unchallenged at 35.86 TFlops followed by the supercomputer developed by
the US Hewlett-Packard for the Los Alamos National Laboratory at 13.88 TFlops.
What is especially notable is a supercomputer rated at 10.28 TFlops developed by
the students and faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
The United States remains number one in the field of supercomputer as 90
percent of the top 500 supercomputers are made by US companies or universities.
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