China is already working on the development of the first exascale supercomputer

One of the parameters to measure the technological development of a country, for many scholars, is to know the supercomputing capabilities of each one. With this in mind, we could speak that the two most developed countries today are the United States and China, two powers that dominate this area despite the fact that, as we could see just a few weeks ago, Japan had set to work to create what they believe will be the world's most powerful supercomputer in 2018.

Despite this announcement, also preceded by the intention of the United States to develop new models, we find that China does not want to stop being considered the first world power and for this nothing better than to continue working and create a much more advanced and faster supercomputer than the Sunway TaihuLight, considered today as the most powerful in the world, which was launched last June.

China is already working on creating the world's first exascale supercomputer prototype.

To get an idea, comment that the Sunway TaihuLight has a performance as brutal as 124,5 petaflops of maximum performance, something that is possible thanks to the joint work of 10,65 million cores or the provision of a RAM memory of 1,3, 100 petabytes. As a detail, tell you that this machine was the first in the world to overcome the barrier of XNUMX petaflops of maximum performance.

Now, as they assure from the Chinese supercomputing center, they are working on the development of a exascale supercomputer prototype capable of performing a trillion calculations per second and which will initially be ready by the end of 2017 although it will not be until 2020 when the entire coupling system and its applications are finalized. If we put this in perspective, we talk about this prototype being about 200 times faster than the first petaflops computer created by Chinese engineers, the Tianhe-1, which was considered the most powerful computer in the world in 2010.


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