Tianhe-1A, designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China is now the fastest supercomputer in the world with a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops or 2,507 trillion calculations per second, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark.
The system uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs. Tianhe-1A, meaning Milky Way, consumes only 4.04 megawatts, making it 3 times more power efficient.
The system is located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin and is already fully operational.
China‘s TIANHE-1A is set to take the number 1 spot from US‘ Jaguar, the world’s fastest supercomputer as of May 2010. The Top500 supercomputers list is due to be released next week.
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