Nebulae (computer)
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| Active | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Location | National Supercomputing Center (Shenzhen) |
| Architecture | TC3600 Blade system |
| Power | 2,580.00 kW |
| Operating system | Linux[1] |
| Speed | 2,984.3 TFlops/s （Rmax） 1,271.0 TFlops/s （Rpeak） |
| Ranking | TOP500: 2, June 2010 |
| Sources | Top500 |
Nebulae (Chinese: 星雲) is a petascale supercomputer located at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Built from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel Xeon X5650 processors and Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, it has a peak performance of 1.271 petaflops using the LINPACK benchmark suite.[2] Nebulae was ranked the second most powerful computer in the world in the June 2010 list of the fastest supercomputers according to TOP500.[3] Nebulae has a theoretical peak performance of 2.9843 petaflops. This computer is used for multiple applications requiring advanced processing capabilities. It is ranked 10th among the June 2012 list of top500.org.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- "National Supercomputing Center starts construction in Shenzhen", People's Daily, November 17, 2009
- Fildes, Jonathan, "China aims to become supercomputer superpower", BBC News, 31 May 2010