U.S. Blocked Supercomputer Exports in China Tech Feud
The Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark reports that the U.S. last fall blocked the export of...
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Chinese Supercomputer Poised to Take No. 1 Ranking
A new supercomputer based in Changsha is likely to be ranked the world’s fastest later this month, reclaiming a crown briefly held by China’s Tianhe-1A in 2010. The new system has exceeded 30 petaflops (quadrillion...
China Aims for High-Tech Primacy
The New York Times looks at China’s efforts to become a leader in high-tech innovation: China already has almost twice the number of Internet users as in the United States, and Dr. Wu, a computer scientist and director of...
China Unveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips
The New York Times reports the announcement of a Chinese supercomputer built with domestically designed and manufactured chips. Although it runs at only 40% of the speed of the Intel- and Nvidia-based Tianhe-1A unveiled last...
China Aims To Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
A three-part series by Louisa Lim at NPR explores China’s quest for scientific prestige. Frequently, it emerges, this is marked by impressive but superficial figures such as raw numbers of papers published, rather than...
China’s Tianhe-1A Takes Supercomputer Crown from US
China has another achievement to add to its growing list of superlatives: the world’s fastest supercomputer. From Wired Magazine: The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336...
Chinese Supercomputer Is Ranked World’s Second-Fastest, Challenging U.S. Dominance
The New York Times reports: The Dawning Nebulae, based at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, has achieved a sustained computing speed of 1.27 petaflops — the equivalent of one thousand trillion mathematical...
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