China Unveils the Fastest Computer in the World

Nonsense! Everyone knows Our Dear Leader Kim Jong Il built the fastest computer in the world. Which isn't surprising, since he also invented the computer.

Who needs to encourage or support free thinkers when you have boatloads of American Dollars and free reign to steal as much IP as needed.

That cluster has squat for efficiency - like all Chinese solutions - they just threw in more money until they could claim "we're number one". Probably not a single native engineer on that project could explain why it works and what's wrong with it.

Good job nVidia for following the all important dollar - no matter who's waving it under your greedy ass face.

So it begins . . . .

Wrong:
"China is investing in supercomputers to improve research and to undertake the complicated and long calculations needed for climate modelling, genetic research, seismic imaging and defence."

Corrected:
"China is investing in supercomputers to improve research and to undertake the complicated and long calculations needed for government pastime, bragging rights, and making building construction as cheap as possible."

whine whine whine whine whine whine whine *grabs tissue* whine whine

2.5 petaFLOPS at peak is quite an achievement but it is soon to be eclipsed by the Blue Waters facility at the University of Illinois.

I hate to use Wikipedia as a reference but at the moment, as far as I know, is the best I can come up with.

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Waters, Blue Waters will be capable of reaching 10 petaFLOPS. It is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Some articles've concerned with this topic. Some of them say that China Unveils is weaker than American one.

Believing all the hype about China is like believing that mike jackson never had plastic surgery.

I wonder what video card they are using... =P

and still can´t run crysis on ultra ^^

i believe that they can do so as far as am concerned i know that they are capable of doing everything that is compitable in technology so let the americans watch back and know that the chinesse are far ahead of them........

sorry my dear americans

Remember guys... China owns the US :) Literally...

@pap momodou jeng - you're totally wrong mate - China is a lot behind America in technology, even this computer is NOT built with Chinese technology - like the rest of your technology, its not yours but bought in from someone else...or stolen as you are very good at stealing other people's IP you are years away from truly catching up with America or the other 1st world nations who truly INNOVATE :-p
@Joubran - you forget an important law of economics, when A owes B a little money its A's problem, but when A owes B a LOT of money its B's problem, all you own is a lot of debt that will never be repaid LOL
China forgets that her current prosperity was built by Western investment and would do well to remember that - the modern world is a different one with all nations depending on each other 20th Century thinking won't work in the 21st Century for very long. Get over it so we can all hold hands and sing 'kumubaya' ;-)

Dear Americans, a list of Chinese Supercomputers for sale at discounted rate has been emailed to President Obama recently following the visit of Chinese Premier Hu Jintao. The bad news is there will be a price hike should the Chinese opted for Renminbe appreciation.