China Builds The Fastest Supercomputer

The Strategy Page ^ | 10/29/2010 | The Strategy page

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d be surprised if China can think of anything truly new before the rest of the world has.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

ECC83’s

[thatjoeguy]

Ah, finally a machine that can run Windows.

[rmlew]

4.04 MEGAWATTS? What does it use for logic gates? 12AX7’s?

"The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs" Each NVIDIA Tesla M2050 uses 225W. I don't know which Xeon they are using. But each one uses 80, 95 or 130W. The Telsas use 1,612,800 watts. The Xeons use 1146880 (80W/cpu), 1,361,920 (95W/cpu), or 1,863,680 watts (130/cpu). They are probably using the last last as I assume they are using the Intel Xeon 7500. That 2 Megawats of power just for the CPUS and Teslas. Then add system boards, ram, hard drives, interconnects and networking, and above all heat dissapation and 4 MW is quite reasonable.