WHAT IS A PETAFLOP AND EXASCALE IN THE SUPERCOMPUTER WORLD - CHINA KNOWS AS IT RELEASES THE TAIHULIGHT WITH ITS OWN CONSTRUCTED PROCESSORS WITH THE THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE OF 124.5 PETAFLOPS LEADING THE PUBLISH WORLD IN SUPERCOMPUTING - NO LONGER RELYING ON INTEL XEONS - AS THE USA TO TARGET BY 2023 THE EXASCALE

 China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores built entirely with Chinese microprocessors. This follows a U.S. government decision last year to deny China access to Intel's fastest microprocessors.
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There is no U.S.-made system that comes close to the performance of China's new system, the Sunway TaihuLight. Its theoretical peak performance is 124.5 petaflops, according to the latest biannual release today of the world's Top500 supercomputers. It is the first system to exceed 100 petaflops. A petaflop equals one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second.
The most important thing about Sunway TaihuLight may be its microprocessors. In the past, China has relied heavily on U.S. microprocessors in building its supercomputing capacity. The world's next fastest system, China's Tianhe-2, which has a peak performance of 54.9 petaflops, uses Intel Xeon processors.


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