Chapter 20 Supercomputers

On this list, a total of 7 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are currently used for game services, and 5 of them are used in the Jiucun "WOW" server. These five HP-manufactured BladeclusterBL-20Ps have 8 channels (8 cPu), use InTeL Xeon 32-bit processors, and have a frequency of 3. 2g to 3 per second. The ability to perform 076 trillion floating-point operations ranks 150 to 154 on the list, respectively. The price is as high as 150,000 US dollars per unit, with a total weight of 40 tons.

The domestic SG supercomputer that once entered the top 10 with 8 per second. Last year, it ranked 42nd in terms of floating-point operations at 061 trillion operations, and the number one spot was continued by the crazy blue gene L (which tripled in size and exceeded 100,000 cPus after beating Earth Simulator last November!).

In comparison, domestic supercomputers

The sg4000a super server uses a total of 2,560 amD 64-bit apteron processors, with a total memory capacity of 5TB and a total disk capacity of 42TB, interconnected by four different sets of networks, with a peak floating-point speed of 11 per second. 2 trillion times, the Linpack value is 8 per second. 06 trillion times.

The first place IBm made the blue gene L achieved 280 per second. The performance record of 6 trillion operations, and the peak speed even reached 367 trillion operations, which is unrivaled. But his cPu count is also unrivaled, installed in Lawrence of the National Nuclear Safety Administration of the US Department of Energy. Livermore National Laboratory's Blue Gene L, which has 131,072 IBm-designed and manufactured PowerPc processors in 64 racks.

Users of the Blue Gene series of supercomputers can choose from just one rack to all 64 racks, and they provide users with a highly scalable solution.

In the ToP500 released in November 2005, Blue Gene had 19 units on the list, 5 of the top 20 units, and firmly maintained the championship and second place.

The former champion, the "Earth Simulator", is a vector supercomputer jointly developed by a number of scientific research institutions in the island country. The Earth Simulator was developed in the form of NEC's vector supercomputer "SX-5" for the purpose of predicting and analyzing large-scale calculations such as atmospheric cycle predictions, warming predictions, crustal changes, and earthquake occurrence for the entire earth by setting up a "virtual earth" in a computer.

The Earth Simulator consists of 640 "Compute Nodes" for calculus processing and 65 network devices for connecting computational nodes. Each node is equipped with eight NEC processors with a maximum of 8 gFLoPs (1 gFLoPs = 1 billion floating-point operations in 1 second) and 16 GB of shared memory. Computing nodes and network devices are communicated by a speed of 12. 3gB/s network connection with a total cable length of up to 2,800 km. The entire plant occupies a total of 3,200 square meters of space.

The development of the "Earth Simulator" began in 1999 and cost a total of 40 billion yen, or about 2.5 billion yuan.

After seeing these materials at that time, Atletico Madrid was not clear, and the pride in the trillion-time supercomputers in middle school ideological and political textbooks suddenly dissipated. At that time, he felt that a supercomputer without a domestic core was not worthy of being called a domestic supercomputer. He wondered why SG didn't use the "Hanxin No. 1" announced in 2003 with 200 million calculations per second (200MHz), or the "Loongson No. 2" with 500 million calculations per second (500MHz).

It wasn't until he saw one of the posts that was widely circulated in university forums and technology and IT forums through the website data left on the computer of the Internet café by the bee publisher: "Shocking Hanxin Shady: Migrant Workers Grind Out?". The anonymous author of the post, claiming to be Chen Jin's subordinate, claimed that Chen, the dean of the School of Microelectronics, was a professor and doctoral supervisor of the school, who bought back 10 moTo-freescale "56800 chips" from the United States in August 2002, and hired migrant workers to grind off the words moTo on the surface of the chips with sandpaper, and then added the logo of Hanxin. Since then, Chen Jin has obtained well-known experts in the domestic integrated circuit industry through various means, and unanimously identified "Hanxin No. 1" as a high-end large-scale integrated circuit that has reached the international advanced level. In the following three years, Chen successfully applied for projects to various national departments more than 40 times, and the cumulative amount of fraudulent free appropriations exceeded 100 million yuan.

After searching for related news, Atletico Madrid found that the original national investigation team had begun to investigate, and the truth should soon come to light, but it is estimated that the truth should not be very good. After all, in the past three years, there have been no MP3 player products using Hanxin on the market, and it is estimated that the probability of this product being really counterfeit is very high.

As for Loongson, it has also been in small-scale tape-out trial production, because the performance of the previous version is too low to have commercial value.

At the just-concluded ceBIT (computer, office automation, information technology) exhibition in Hannover, Germany, Aomen manufacturers displayed low-cost municator computers based on Loongson and running Linux, and at the same time played the slogan "saynotowintel, Trynow!" (wintel is a combination of good friends windows and IntelcPu).

According to media reports, the main hardware configuration parameters of municator are: godson (Loongson) 2c processor under BGA package, 400-800MHz variable operating frequency, 133MHz front-side bus (64-bitmIPssysaD), 40gB hard disk, 256mB memory, integrated 16mBaTIRadeon7000m display chip, Ps/2 interface, 4 usB2. 0 interface, Vga and TV output, with Lan and wi-Fi (waPI) network functions, etc., running Linux system, priced at 149 US dollars (about 1200 yuan), monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset speaker or something to bring your own and buy it separately.

Although many netizens said that 1200 yuan is a small meaning, it should be regarded as supporting domestic production, but this very alternative name yellowsheepriver (Huangyanghe) company does not seem to have the intention of shipping in large quantities on the market.

However, it is located in Suzhou Province, Zhongke Menglan Company, which is also ready to launch a configuration very similar to Municator"Longmeng computer", its configuration is: the main frequency is 360MHz-400MHz Loongson 2C processor, FsB133mhz, marvell's mV64420-BDm1c133 Northbridge, aTIRaDeon7000-m internal graphics card (integrated 16m video memory), ac'97, 4usB, dual Ps2, network card IR interface, etc. The same open-source LInuX system is also used, and it also has the same flat box appearance as the switch, as for whether it is good to buy or not, I don't know. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net