Thursday, October 28, 2010

Chinese Supercomputer Tianhe-1A Bumps U.S. Out of the Lead - NYTimes.com

Chinese Supercomputer Tianhe-1A Bumps U.S. Out of the Lead - NYTimes.com: "The Chinese system follows that model by linking thousands upon thousands of chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia. But the secret sauce behind the system — and the technological achievement — is the interconnect, or networking technology, developed by Chinese researchers that shuttles data back and forth across the smaller computers at breakneck rates, Mr. Dongarra said.

“That technology was built by them,” Mr. Dongarra said. “They are taking supercomputing very seriously and making a deep commitment.”

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