2015-04-11 13:54 Author: Thomas Kulas
The US government banned the sale of tens of Intel Xeon processors to China. They were used to modernize the world’s largest supercomputer Tianhe-2 and three other supercomputers.
Officials have justified its decision by the fear that they will be used supercomputers to China to research on nuclear weapons. It was pointed out that Chinese institutions where they are located supercomputers ,, act against the interests of security or foreign policy of the United States. “The Tianhe-2 (Milky Way-2) is made up of 80,000 Xeon processors. The computational power is over 33 petaFLOPS. This year, the Tianhe-2 had to be extended so that its computational power has increased to 110 petaFLOPS.
It is not known whether the Americans that Decision score – in the long term – a goal into his own net. It is supposed fact that China accelerate the ongoing work on the production of their own processors, according to the plan to increase the computing power of its supercomputers.
The BBC also announces that Intel has signed with the US government contract worth $ 200 million to build a powerful supercomputer Aurora, Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. It is expected that the computing power reaches 180 petaFLOPS Aurora.
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