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The Tianhe-1A hits 2.507 petaflops, surpassing the Cray XT5 Jaguar of the U.S., but the official word will come from International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.


China has built what may be the world's fastest computer, a signal that the Chinese are ready to present a serious challenge to the U.S. as the dominant force in supercomputing.

The Tianhe-1A, unveiled Thursday, set a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, easily surpassing the current record holder, the Cray XT5 Jaguar. Whether the Chinese system is officially crowned the world's fastest computer will have to wait a couple of weeks, when the Top 500 list is scheduled to be released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.

In the meantime, the stats for the Tianhe-1A make it appear to be the leader. The system, powered by 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs, speeded past Jaguar's 1.75 petaflops. The latter supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., National Laboratory, uses 224,162 Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices. A petaflops is equal to 1,000 trillion operations per second.

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