China unveiled a homegrown supercomputing system called “Tianhe Xingyi” that has greater capabilities in several areas, including computing power, storage and applications, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The supercomputer was unveiled by the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong province, on report aggregate.
Lu Yutong, director of the center, said the new computer has surpassed Tianhe-2, one of the world's fastest supercomputers, in capabilities such as CPU, network, storage and applications.
The operation of the supercomputer is expected to meet the growing computing demands of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence or ai, large model training and big data analysis, the center said according to the report.
Tianhe-2, developed by the National University of Defense technology (NUDT), topped a list of the world's 500 fastest systems for three consecutive years since 2013. However, it dropped from the top spot in 2016, the year after The US government placed NUDT on a blacklist that removed the university's access to the Intel (INTC) processors it uses in its supercomputers, according to a technology/china-launches-new-homegrown-supercomputer-xinhua-2023-12-06/” target=”_blank”>report from Reuters.
