Jinan, China, Jan 21 (TruthDive): China’s ‘Sunway BlueLight’ supercomputer, which was built with domestically produced microprocessors and is capable of performing around one thousand trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, has officially gone into operation at the National Supercomputing Centre in the eastern China city of Jinan.
The supercomputer ‘Sunway BlueLight’ was installed in September 2011 at the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in east China’s city of Jinan.
It underwent a three-month-long trial operation period before going into official use, making China the third country in the world to be capable of producing a supercomputer with domestically produced processors after United States and Japan.
A combination of high-density packaging and low-energy consumption technologies, the Sunway BlueLight ranks among the world’s leading supercomputers incomprehensive performance, according to the center.
The Sunway is about 74 percent as fast as the Jaguar Supercomputer in the United States, which ranks third in the world, although the Sunway is less power-hungry, said Pan Jingshan, assistant director of the centre. The Sunway’s power consumption is just 1 megawatt, much lower than the Jaguar’s 7 megawatts.
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