Shanghai. August 29. INTERFAX-CHINA - China has launched a supercomputer based on homegrown server standards that, at its peak, can make 230 trillion per second, domestic media reported on Aug. 28.
The supercomputer, named Dawning 5000, was developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd. and has recorded a LINPACK speed of 160 trillion FLOPS (floating point operations per second), Xinhua news agency reported.
With the commissioning of the supercomputer, China became the second country, after the United States, to develop a supercomputer with a capacity above 100 trillion FLOPS, the report said.
The supercomputer uses quad-core and quadruplex circuit blade servers and is based on proprietary Chinese high-performance server standards, including the Remote Monitoring Technology on PC Cluster Operating System and Management Module Technology of Blade Server standards.
It is 10 times faster than China's former fastest supercomputer, the Dawning 400A, which is able to make 10 trillion calculations per second. The Dawning 400A was jointly launched by Dawning and the CAS's Institute of Computing Technology in 2004.
Dawning 5000 will be sold commercially for RMB 100 million (14.71 million), according to Dawning.
In the future, China plans to extend the adoption of high-performance computer standards to more industry sectors, such as telecommunications, oil exploitation and weather forecasting. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is currently encouraging more domestic computer companies to form an industry alliance in pursuit of this goal, the report said.
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