Re: DF-41 Missile\
im sorry, but what you stated above is not true. there is an awful lot of people related to the powerful military-industrial complex who want congress to fork out money to it. Presenting china´s military as powerful as possible is good for them.
Does china has acess to a supercomputer with that capacity?
Kroko kroko you are way behind the curve, China has been for years simulating the nuclear blast using super computer. How do you think they improve the design of nuclear bomb without testing it Nowadays you don't actually need to test anymore
Domestic supercomputer has been installed in many research laboratory
Here is one example
Local computer world's 10th fastest
2008-11-18
CHINA'S most powerful domestically made supercomputer has been ranked as the 10th fastest in the world, the Shanghai Economic Committee said yesterday.
The Dawning 5000A, or "Magic Cube," was jointly developed by the Institute of Computer Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Dawning Information Industry Co and the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, where it resides.
The development of the Cube made China only the second country capable of building supercomputers whose processing speeds reach multi-hundred trillion floating-point operations per second, according to the committee. Floating points represent a method of encoding numbers.
The Cube is China's second supercomputer to rank among the world's top 10. A Dawning 4000A took 10th place in 2004.
The Dawning 5000A is the most powerful system outside the United States.
2008-6-26
CHINA'S leading supercomputer, 20 times more powerful than the current one, will have a home in Shanghai by the end of this year.
A supercomputer demonstrates a country's IT development level because it is used for daily life, academic studies and industrial applications such as weather forecasts and gene studies, the Shanghai Supercomputer Center said yesterday.
The supercomputer, code-named Dawning5000, costs 200 million yuan (US$29 million), with the central and Shanghai governments contributing 100 million yuan each.
Dawning5000 has achieved a peak performance of 230 teraflops, or 230 trillion calculations per second. The computing capacity is based on how many calculations can be performed within one second.
It occupies 75 square meters and used 6,600 AMD quad-core chips, 20 times faster than the previous model Dawning4000 but only increasing power consumption by 50 percent.
"Now we invite people to give the model an impressive name, such as IBM's Blue Gene/L, before it's properly installed in Shanghai," said Xi Zili, the supercomputer center director.
At present the world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM-developed Roadrunner with a peak performance of 1.026 petaflops, five times faster than Dawning5000.
The International Supercomputing Conference released last week in Dresden, Germany, the latest rankings of the world's most powerful supercomputers and Dawning would have been there.
Nie Hua, vice president of Dawning Information Industry Co, said yesterday in an interview with Xinhua: "A delay in the delivery of AMD Barcelona quad-cores chips made us miss the latest rankings."
In 2004 a Dawning 4000A was ranked the tenth fastest in the world.
While the IBM Roadrunner was built for unspecified military applications, the Chinese system focuses on commercial use, Xinhua reported. Dawning showcased its eye-catching performance by processing a 36-hour weather forecast on Beijing and its environs within three minutes.
Li Guojie, Dawning Information Industry Co's chairman, said China is researching a 1-petaflop supercomputer and the model will be available around 2010.
In 1995 Chinese computing scientists built the country's first supercomputer.
