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  • China Developing 100 Teraflops Supercomputer

    As reporter of the First Finance News learns from insiders of the Dawning Company, China is carrying out research on a supercomputer with a peak calculation speed exceeding 100 teraflops per second. The program may be jointly carried out by the National Research Center for Intelligent Computing systems (NCIC) and the Dawing Company.

    Sources say the 100 teraflops super computer may adopt China-developed Longxin processor. But a person with the marketing department of Dawning says, "There is little possibility for the supercomputer to adopt Longxin."

    Once the development of the 100 teraflops supercomputer succeeds, it will hopefully become top three supercomputers in the world top 500 ranking.

    Details about research of the 100 teraflops supercomputer will hopefully be revealed at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of China's development of high performance computer on July 12, said president of Dawning Li Jun.

    Developed countries including Japan and the US have already announced starting development of 100 teraflops supercomputers, and IBM announced success in developing the supercomputer at the end of 2004. China will become the 2nd country possessing 100 teraflops supercomputer should the program succeed.

    Supercomputer is an indicator of a country's comprehensive strength. The world supercomputer ranking of this year shows China has 19 supercomputers among the world top 500, accounting for 3.8 percent. China is only behind the US, Germany, the UK and Japan on the ranking, and is the country with the fastest growth in supercomputer market in Asia. However, the Shuguang(Dawning) 4000A system, which has a peak computation speed of ten teraflops per second, fell to the 31st from the 10th in 2004.

    By People's Daily Online

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    CAS developing supercomputers

    The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on July 12 that it expects to complete by the year 2008 a 100 teraflops supercomputer it is developing in collaboration with the Chinese Dawning Company, and by the year 2010 a 1,000 teraflops supercomputer started at the same time.

    According to sources, the research and development of 100 teraflops and 1,000 teraflops supercomputers of independent intellectual property rights helps facilitate the industrialization of China's high technologies, and can also contribute to national security and economic security.

    By People's Daily Online

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      The World's Highest Efficiency Supercomputer Based on Intel® Xeon™ Processors and Mellanox InfiniBand Interconnect Is Developed and Made in China


      SHENZEN, CHINA and SANTA CLARA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/12/2005 -- In recent years, Galactic Computing (Shenzhen) Ltd, a subsidiary of HK public-held Shell Electric Mfg. (Holdings) Co. Ltd (SMC), has been focusing in design and manufacturing in China a new generation of Supercomputing Blade System to provide a highly parallel and scalable information utility grid computing platform for science, engineering and commercial applications, such as petroleum exploration, weather forecast, aerospace, material science, biomedical research, e-healthcare and digital hospital, e-entertainment and digital home, e-learning and digital school, electronic tracking and modern logistics, collaborative advanced design and manufacturing.

      Having installed successfully in Nov. 2004 a GT1000 Supercomputing Blade System (1 Teraflops) at Beijing Biomedical Research Institute, Galactic Computing just completed another GT4000 Supercomputing Blade System (281 blades, 562 Intel® Xeon™ processors) which has attained the world rank of 100 according to the 2005 June 22nd release of Top500 supercomputers list. The peak performance of the entire system is 4.046 Teraflops and the HPLinpack performance is 3.413 Teraflops which corresponds to the efficiency of 84.35%.

      GT4000 result demonstrates the highest HPLinpack efficiency in the world among teraflops scale supercomputers based on x86 processors which have been announced to date.

      Dr. Steve Chen, CEO and Founder of Galactic Computing and Chief System Architect of Supercomputing Blade System, said, "While we will crank up system performance gradually, we will continue to focus in creative system architecture and design to achieve highly parallel system efficiency, reliability, usability, and most importantly the actual deliverable performance based on real customers applications solution time and total cost of ownership for a wide range of scientific, engineering and commercial applications in fast-growing China and global markets."

      "Incorporating Intel-based platforms and industry standard technologies such as InfiniBand, Galactic's system delivers incredible teraflops performance in a very efficient manner, enabling faster design and deployment opportunities," said Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group of Intel Corporation, "This is where high-performance computing is headed. Intel, working with companies like Galactic and Mellanox, is committed to continue delivering these super-fast computers that help speed scientific research, exploration and many other important areas to all of humankind."

      Also, this is the one and only supercomputer in China with completely embedded end-to-end InfiniBand 10Gb from blade-to-blade and blade-to-storage with 4 microseconds latency (instead of 50 milliseconds as most 1Gb Ethernet networked server clusters) and can achieve storage data throughput rate up to 820MB/s (two to three times faster and yet cheaper than Fiber Channel SAN).

      "Galactic's ranking in the Top500 list of supercomputers demonstrates the strength of the Mellanox and Galactic partnership to date," said Eyal Waldman, President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. "With overall efficiency ratings above 84% and world-class latency performance, the Galactic GT4000 is proof positive of 10Gb/s InfiniBand technology. Our recent introduction of 20Gb/s InfiniBand DDR solutions continues to push the performance curve while reducing latency, further complementing Mellanox's partnership with Galactic."

      About Galactic Computing

      Galactic Computing (Shenzhen) Limited established in Shenzhen, China in 2002, and a subsidiary of HK public-held Shell Electric Mfg. (Holdings) Co. Ltd (SMC), is a designer and manufacturer of a new generation of Supercomputing Blade System in China. Galactic Computing is focusing in providing world leading Supercomputing Blade Systems in China and worldwide, and owns many patents in Supercomputing Blade System architecture and design in China and worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.galactic.com.hk.

      About Mellanox

      Mellanox field-proven offering of interconnect solutions for communications, storage and compute clustering are changing the shape of both business and technical computing. As the leader of industry-standard, InfiniBand-based silicon and card-based solutions, Mellanox is the driving force behind the most cost-effective, highest performance interconnect solutions available. For more information, visit www.mellanox.com.

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