China has successfully developed the supercomputer Dawning 5000A, which is capable of 2,335 trillion FLOPS (Floating-point operations per second). The computer passed the appraisal by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Thursday, making China the second country with capability of independently designing and making supercomputer on this level.
China has successfully developed the supercomputer Dawning 5000A, which is capable of 2,335 trillion FLOPS (Floating-point operations per second). The computer passed the appraisal by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Thursday, making China the second country with capability of independently designing and making supercomputer on this level.
The supercomputer will be used for information processing and fundamental scientific research at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC), said Li Jun, president of Tianjin-based Dawning Information Industry Co.
Dawning 5000A will help with weather forecasting, construction of seabed tunnels, environmental protection, large passenger aircraft production and earthquake predictions, according to the SSC.
Dawning 5000A covers a floor space of 75 square meters and consumes 700 kilowatts of electricity per hour. Even with expensive imported AMD chips, it costs only 200 million yuan (29 million U.S. dollars), significantly lower than its 100 million-U.S. dollar counterpart "Roadrunner" in the United States.
