Hardware China takes HPC heavyweight title

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From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10...supercomputer/

The National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China, this morning rolled out the Top 100 rankings of the country's fastest supercomputers (based on the Linpack Fortran benchmark test, like the global Top 500 list). The Tianhe-1A (which is translated from Chinese for "River in the Sky" or "Milky Way" with a model number slapped on it) beat out all of its rivals. The supercomputer is based on a rack server design created by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), and comprises 14,336 Xeon processors and 7,168 of Nvidia's Tesla M2050 fanless GPU co-processors.