World's fastest supercomputer China's Tianhe-2 or TH-2 "Milky Way 2"

rTianhe-2 or TH-2 ( literally "Skyriver-2" idiomatically "Milky Way 2") is a 33.86 petaflop s supercomputer located in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. It was developed by a team of 1300 scientists and engineers.

It is the world's fastest supercomputer

 according to the TOP500 list for June and November 2013.

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History

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eThe development of Tianhe-2 was sponsored by the 863 High Technology Program, initiated by the Chinese government, the government of Guangdong province, and the government of Guangzhou city.^[1] It was built by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in collaboration with the Chinese IT firm Inspur.^[1][5] Inspur manufactured the printed circuit boards and helped with the installation and testing of the system software.^[1] The project was originally scheduled for completion in 2015, but was instead declared operational in June 2013.^[6] As of June 2013, The Supercomputer has yet to become fully operational. It is expected to reach its full computing capabilities by the end of 2013.^[5]hnology (NUDT) anht expect the def

Applications

According to NUDT, Tianhe-2 will be used for simulation, analysis, and government security applications.^[1]

With 16,000 computer nodes, each comprising two Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon processors and three Xeon Phi chips, it represents the world's largest installation of Ivy Bridge and Xeon Phi chips, counting a total of 3,120,000 cores.^[3] Each of the 16,000 nodes possess 88 gigabytes of memory (64 used by the Ivy Bridge processors, and 8 gigabytes for each of the Xeon Phi processors). The total CPU plus coprocessor memory is 1,375 TiB (approximately 1.34 PiB).

During the testing phase, Tianhe-2 was laid out in a non-optimal confined space. When assembled at its final location, the system will have a theoretical peak performance of 54.9 petaflops. At peak power consumption, the system itself would draw 17.6 megawatts of power. Including external cooling, the system would draw an aggregate of 24 megawatts. The computer complex would occupy 720 square meters of spaceence side of things is shrouded in secrecy, but Chinese media reports say it'll also be used to predict earthquakes, for climate modelling and to help China's car industry