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Chinese firm launches 2000 CPU AMD Opteron supercomputer

NTUsEr   on 24 July 2003 - 11:13 · 16 comments & 1375 views

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Dawning said today that it will fashion the fastest supercomputer in China with a machine capable of delivering 10,000 GFLOPS and using 2000 AMD Opteron microprocessors.

Reports said the Dawning 4000A will use clustering and hypertransport linking together over 2000 Opterons, in a machine that's called the Red Grid.

It looks like Dawning is announcing things a bit early on. According to a widespread leak of internal AMD PR documents, this announcement wasn't due until the 5th of August. The supercomputers are likely to be used for weather forecasting, by research firms, and the like. Dawning – a Chinese company – is claiming all the components and software apart from the CPUs are home grown.

News source: The Inquirer





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#1 DJ^TuRKiYe on 24 Jul 2003 - 11:23
OMG Thats all i will say..
#2 YaZoR on 24 Jul 2003 - 11:34
and whats it going to do? weather forecasting? OMG i can do that by looking out of my window!

its sunny not a cloud in the sky. therefore its not gonna rain for a bit

they will prob use it for working out pi to 70 million decimal places or something
(2 replies) #3 DJ^TuRKiYe on 24 Jul 2003 - 12:14
they could put it to good use by using all of its power for the genome@home or folding@home projects
#3.1 Huezo on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:49
Or SETI@Home
#3.2 DJ^TuRKiYe on 24 Jul 2003 - 23:10
seti@home is a waste of resources imho
#4 dmd3x on 24 Jul 2003 - 12:57
whoa! that is amazing!
#5 Homie on 24 Jul 2003 - 13:15
NO NO ITS TO LAUNCH NUKES AHHHHHHHHHH, ahahhaaha right, back to sleep homie-san..
#6 Wrath Delivery on 24 Jul 2003 - 13:21
Perhaps they will use it to process and spy on emails in and out of China. Yunno, bigbrother like. They already do this, now they can do it faster!
#7 linked on 24 Jul 2003 - 13:31
200 Opteron processors, and they didn't even bother to offer me a barton...
(2 replies) #8 Galley_SimRacer on 24 Jul 2003 - 13:54
And it probably still won't be as powerful as the PlayStation 3!
#8.1 longwilli on 24 Jul 2003 - 15:47
lol
#8.2 username on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:13
now that is funny, good one
#9 longwilli on 24 Jul 2003 - 15:48
lol thats sounds cool
#10 CheeseCow on 24 Jul 2003 - 16:11
Is this when someone's supposed to say "imagine a BeoWulf cluster of those"?
#11 mealbundy on 24 Jul 2003 - 19:20
SO THATS WHY THERE'S NO OPTERONS AVAILABLE! THEY BOUGHT THEM ALL!!!!!
#12 Gary_Player on 25 Jul 2003 - 02:47
Man i totally want one...

Man I totally dont know if China should have one

Like 3 years ago wernt the new (at that point) g4s on the do not sell to china list? What happend to that? Oh, Clinton let them into the WTO, thats what happened.

YOU CANNOT DESTROY CHINA!!!

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