Compute
Chip Makers and the China Challenge
China represents a big and growing market opportunity for IT vendors around the world. …
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Compute
China’s Triple Play For Pre-Exascale Systems
Before any country can deploy an exascale system, they have to get pre-exascale prototypes into the field to test out their underlying technologies and determine what approaches have the best chance of scaling up performance and being manufactured affordably. …
HPC
A Look Inside China’s Chart-Topping New Supercomputer
Much to the surprise of the supercomputing community, which is gathered in Germany for the International Supercomputing Conference this morning, news arrived that a new system has dramatically topped the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest and largest machines. …
Compute
China Lays The Chip Foundation For Its Next Platform
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
Compute
China Triples Top Supercomputer Count in 2015
The results of the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers has just been announced, and while there are no big surprises at the top outside of a couple of new additions, the real news sits farther down the stack—and could speak volumes about the global supercomputing race in terms of which countries are pushing investments. …
HPC
Shifting Tides for China’s Next Wave of Supercomputers
While the news of the last few years has clearly indicated that China is at the top of the world when it comes to chart-topping supercomputers, the storyline is evolving—and the picture for high performance computing in Asia is not as rosy as many believe. …
HPC
China Intercepts U.S. Restrictions with Homegrown Supercomputer Chips
When the U.S. blocked exports of Intel chips for key Chinese supercomputers the expectation was that it would do little more than hasten the development of native architectures, effectively pushing up the timeline for Chinese chipmakers to find their own solutions to large-scale computing without Intel. …
HPC
The Strange Story of the U.S. Weather Supercomputer Police in China
When IBM sent Zaphiris Christidis on an international assignment to China to manage the supercomputing division for climate and environment applications, he would be part of an over 50,000 strong force in China managing weather forecasting and research. …