Tianhe-I
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Tianhe-I, Tianhe-1, or TH-1 (, ; Sky River Number One) is a supercomputer capable of an Rmax (maximum range) of 2.5 peta FLOPS. Located at the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin, China, it was the fastest computer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011 and was one of the few petascale supercomputers in the world.
Key facts
- Custom computer.Name
- Tianhe-1 and Tianhe-1A
- Custom computer.Image
- File:Tianhe-1 supercomputer.jpg
- Custom computer.Caption
- Tianhe-1
- Custom computer.Dates
- Tianhe-1 Operational 29 October 2009, Tianhe-1A Operational 28 October 2010
- Custom computer.Location
- National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
- Custom computer.Sponsors
- National University of Defense Technology
- Custom computer.Operators
- National Supercomputing Center
- Custom computer.Memory
- 96 TB (98304 GB) for Tianhe-1, 262 TB for Tianhe-1A
- Custom computer.Speed
- Tianhe-1: 563 teraFLOPS (Rmax) 1,206.2 teraFLOPS (Rpeak),Tianhe-1A: 2,566.0 teraFLOPS (Rmax) 4,701.0 teraFLOPS (Rpeak)
- Custom computer.OS
- Linux
- Custom computer.ChartName
- TOP500
- Custom computer.ChartPosition
- 1st
- Custom computer.ChartDate
- November 2010 (Tianhe-1A)
- Custom computer.Purpose
- Petroleum exploration, aircraft simulation
- Custom computer.Sources
- top500.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Background
- Tianhe-1
- Tianhe-1A
- See also
- References
- External links
Tianhe-I, Tianhe-1, or TH-1 (, ; Sky River Number One) is a supercomputer capable of an Rmax (maximum range) of 2.5 peta FLOPS. Located at the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin, China, it was the fastest computer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011 and was one of the few petascale supercomputers in the world.
In October 2010, an upgraded version of the machine (Tianhe-1A) overtook ORNL's Jaguar to become the world's fastest supercomputer, with a peak computing rate of 2.57 petaFLOPS. In June 2011 the Tianhe-1A was overtaken by the K computer as the world's fastest supercomputer, which was also subsequently superseded.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tianhe-I” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.