china-milky way-astest-supercomputerChina has just released a super computer devices. They claimed this machine is the fastest computer in the world, and demonstrate their efforts to become a leader in the field of technology. This super computer developed by the National University of Defense Technology, a China military academy. These computer devices noted ranked fourth in the 500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.

Xinhua, Friday (30/10/2009) launch, the computer named Milky Way was in theory can display more than one million calculations per second. Terrific! More super-fast computers made in China.

For that, Milky Way is suitable for calculation purposes biomedical, seismic data processing for oil drilling, as well as for designing the various machines used in space. Milky Way which cost approximately US88 million has more than 11,000 microprocessors Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

One mentions a computer design team, Milky Way will soon be moved to a super computing center in Tianjin later this year. Separately, the Government of China is also designing type petaflop supercomputer that will be released next year. The plan, this computer will use the Godson CPU CPU is also known as Loongson, the local chip is designed for government funding in China.

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