World's fastest supercomputer

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Now Belongs to China.

The computer, known as Tianhe-1A, gives China the edge over the United States, whose fastest machine, the Jaguar, is housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Tianhe-1A sits at the National University of Defence Technology in Tianjin.

China is investing in supercomputers to improve research and to undertake the complicated and long calculations needed for climate modelling, genetic research, seismic imaging and defence.

According to Nvidia, a technology company that supplied parts for the Chinese computer, the Tianhe-1A was clocked at 2.507 petaflops, or more than two quadrillion calculations per second. It has the power of 175,000 high-end laptops.

System Name	Tianhe-1
Site	National SuperComputer Center in Tianjin/NUDT
System Family	NUDT Cluster
System Model	NUDT TH-1 Cluster
Computer	NUDT TH-1 Cluster, Xeon E5540/E5450, ATI Radeon HD 4870 2, Infiniband
Vendor	NUDT
Application area	Research
Main Memory	98304 GB
Installation Year	2009
Operating System	Linux
Memory	98304 GB
Interconnect	Infinband DDR 4x
Processor	Intel EM64T Xeon E55xx (Nehalem-EP) 2530 MHz (10.12 GFlops)

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk & http://top500.org