THE China-made supercomputer Nebulae officially went into operation at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen on Friday, according to its manufacturer Dawning Information Industry Co.
Nebulae was announced June 1 this year to have a performance of 1.27 petaflops per second, giving it third place on the 36th list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, published Nov. 17, 2010.
Nebulae can run at double the speed of Tianhe-1, previously the fastest computer in China developed by the National University of Defense Technology last October, said Li Jun, president of Dawning Information.
Its peak performance reaches nearly 3 quadrillion calculations per second, three times the peak speed of Tianhe-1, Li said.
Experts say Nebulae can achieve in one second what it would take a standard desktop computer a whole day to do.
Nebulae is the server part of Dawning 6000, developed by the company along with the Chinese Academy of Sciences Calculation Institution and the South China Supercomputing Center, for the purposes of cloud computing, research, intelligent searches and DNA sequencing.
Dawning 6000 is expected to be delivered to the National Supercomputing Center this year.
The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen is the largest national technological center in Shenzhen. The construction of the center began two years ago at a cost of 800 million yuan. It is expected to provide technology support for meteorology, finance and other public information industries, provide innovation computing and data processing solutions for companies.
Beijing-based Dawning Information Industry Co., founded in 1995, is a leading company in the field of high-performance computers.
(Han Ximin)
