This thing is a hoss!
Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs (3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5540s and 3072 Quad-Core Xeon E5450) and 5120 AMD GPUs (2560 Radeon HD 4870 X2s), Milky Way One’s peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops, and it runs at 563.1 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark.
The 155-ton system, with 103 refrigerator-like cabinets lined up on an area of about 1,000 square meters, which cost at least 600 million yuan (88.24 million U.S. dollars) is expected to process seismic data for oil exploration, conduct bio-medical computing and help design aerospace vehicles, according to NUDT president Zhang Yulin.
A single-day task for Milky Way One might take a mainstream dual-core personal computer 160 years to complete, working non-top - if it can last that long.
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http://en.expreview.com/2009/10/30/china-successfully-developed-milky-way-one-supercomputer.html
