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...
Apr 10, 2015
The Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark reports that the U.S. last fall blocked the export of...
Jun 6, 2013
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...
Dec 9, 2011
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...
Oct 30, 2011
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...
Aug 4, 2011
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...
Oct 28, 2010
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...
Jun 1, 2010
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...