Tianhe-2
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Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (, i.e. 'Milky Way 2') is a 33.86-petaflop supercomputer located in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China. It was developed by a team of 1,300 scientists and engineers.
Key facts
- Custom computer.Image
- 300px|Tianhe-2 in National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
- Custom computer.Sponsors
- 863 Program
- Custom computer.Location
- National Supercomputer Center, Guangzhou, China
- Custom computer.Architecture
- 32,000 Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C with 2.200 GHz 48,000 Xeon Phi 31S1P
- Custom computer.Memory
- 1,375 TiB (1,000 TiB CPU and 375 TiB coprocessor)
- Custom computer.Storage
- 12.4 PB
- Custom computer.Speed
- 33.86 PFLOPS
- Custom computer.Power
- 17.6 MW (24 MW with cooling)
- Custom computer.OS
- Kylin Linux
- Custom computer.Cost
- 2.4 billion Yuan (US$390,000,000)
- Custom computer.Purpose
- Simulation, analysis, and government security applications.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Specifications
- Criticisms
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- References
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Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (, i.e. 'Milky Way 2') is a 33.86-petaflop supercomputer located in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China. It was developed by a team of 1,300 scientists and engineers.
It was the world's fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 lists for June 2013, November 2013, June 2014, November 2014, June 2015, and November 2015. The record was surpassed in June 2016 by the Sunway TaihuLight. In 2015, plans by Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with Guangzhou district and city administration to double its computing capacities were stopped by a U.S. government rejection of Intel's application for an export license for the CPUs and coprocessor boards.
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