{"id":1884,"date":"2011-06-01T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foerderverein-technische-fakultaet.at\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2013-05-21T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:05:05","slug":"introduction-to-the-th-1a-supercomputer-in-the-tianjin-national-supercomputer-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftf.or.at\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to the TH-1A Supercomputer in the Tianjin National Supercomputer Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supercomputing has drawn significant attention from the research and industry communities. The reasons are multidimensional, including the advance of computer technology, the merging of large-scale applications, and needs of national defense. However, designing high performance, high efficiency and high security supercomputers has been proven to be a hard task.<\/p>\n

In this talk, Prof. Zhang introduces the TH-1A supercomputer, which was developed by the College of Computer Science of NUDT (National University of Defense Technology). The peak speed of TH-1A is 4700 TFLOPS, the LINPACK test result is 2566 TFLOPS, and it was ranked No. 1 on the TOP 500 list released in November 2010. The architecture which integrates GPUs and CPUs for high-performance parallel comp<\/p>\n

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uting is exploited for the first time in the world. The whole system consists of two major components: hardware system and software system. For the hardware system, the TH-1A team developed 3 large-scale integrated circuit designs, 4 kinds of nodes, 2 networks, and 15 different PCB boards. Accordingly, the operating system, the compiling system, the parallel programming environment, and the scientific virtualization system were developed for the software system. The TH-1A supercomputer has been used in many applications, including oil exploration, high-end equipment development, bio-medical research, 3D animation, cloud computing, and so on.<\/p>\n