News - Sunway BlueLight MPP homegrown Chinese supercomputer

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China unveils its new 1 petaflop supercomputer built entirely from homegrown ShenWei SW-3 1600 CPUs.

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wonder how long it'll be before the chinese guy who comes in the pub flogging stuff offers me a knock off version of one of these ;)

Here are some more pictures:

http://laotsao.wordpress.com/2011/10...3%9D%E5%85%89/

For its performance class it seems that around 1MW is actually relatively low power consumption.

It also seems the cooling technology used might be useful for more powerful designs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/wo..._r=2&ref=world

Very impressive, I wonder if Sony and IBM will take a look at their patents to see if they can sue them considering they are the big boys on the RISC block.

I hope they go on to create commercial versions of these chips so we can finally get some desktop RISC processors. I've been hoping the Cell processor would get into desktop computers but it hasn't happened yet :(