Brother
Professional
- Messages
- 2,590
- Reaction score
- 483
- Points
- 83
Is the car ready to compete with the American Frontier?
Chinese scientists have made an important breakthrough in computing technology by introducing the new Sunway OceanLight supercomputer to the world. Created by the National Parallel Computing and Technology Research Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, it is an improved version of its predecessor, the Sunway TaihuLight, which previously ranked first on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Sunway OceanLight is powered by the updated Sunway SW26010 Pro CPU – also a modified version of the Sunway SW26010 used in TaihuLight. Improvements have been made to the clock speed, instruction set, and memory bandwidth, resulting in a four-fold increase in performance.
In response to US sanctions and technological restrictions, Chinese scientists have increased the number of cores in Sunway OceanLight, achieving a speed of 5 exaflops, which is close to the performance of the American Frontier supercomputer with its 9.95 exaflops. Despite the increased power consumption and cost of operation, this solution allowed us to create a really powerful machine.
Sunway OceanLight also surpassed leading supercomputers in computational efficiency, maintaining more than 85% of its peak performance in normal operation. Developers have implemented more than 100,000 chips and over 41 million cores in the system, which is significantly higher than the 8.7 million cores of Frontier.
The scientific community suggests that China may be secretly working on even more impressive projects, as well as developing new chips to enhance its computing capabilities.
Sunway OceanLight can be considered a symbol of China's desire for technological independence. However, despite its impressive performance, the SW26010-Pro processor still can't match the world's most advanced counterparts. In any case, scientists will have to look for alternative methods to improve the performance of supercomputers in the current constraints.
Chinese scientists have made an important breakthrough in computing technology by introducing the new Sunway OceanLight supercomputer to the world. Created by the National Parallel Computing and Technology Research Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, it is an improved version of its predecessor, the Sunway TaihuLight, which previously ranked first on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Sunway OceanLight is powered by the updated Sunway SW26010 Pro CPU – also a modified version of the Sunway SW26010 used in TaihuLight. Improvements have been made to the clock speed, instruction set, and memory bandwidth, resulting in a four-fold increase in performance.
In response to US sanctions and technological restrictions, Chinese scientists have increased the number of cores in Sunway OceanLight, achieving a speed of 5 exaflops, which is close to the performance of the American Frontier supercomputer with its 9.95 exaflops. Despite the increased power consumption and cost of operation, this solution allowed us to create a really powerful machine.
Sunway OceanLight also surpassed leading supercomputers in computational efficiency, maintaining more than 85% of its peak performance in normal operation. Developers have implemented more than 100,000 chips and over 41 million cores in the system, which is significantly higher than the 8.7 million cores of Frontier.
The scientific community suggests that China may be secretly working on even more impressive projects, as well as developing new chips to enhance its computing capabilities.
Sunway OceanLight can be considered a symbol of China's desire for technological independence. However, despite its impressive performance, the SW26010-Pro processor still can't match the world's most advanced counterparts. In any case, scientists will have to look for alternative methods to improve the performance of supercomputers in the current constraints.
