{"id":72738,"date":"2017-09-20T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:22:35","slug":"china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops","title":{"rendered":"China Upgrading Milky Way 2 Supercomputer to 95 Petaflops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ihpcf-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ihpcf-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ihpcf.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px)  100vw, 300px\" \/>We have some breaking news from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ihpcf2017.nscc-gz.cn\/Program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHPC Forum<\/a> in Guangzhou today. Researchers in China are busy upgrading the MilkyWay 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top500.org\/system\/177999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tianhe-2<\/a>) system to nearly 95 Petaflops (peak). This should nearly double the performance of the system, which is currently ranked at #2 on TOP500 with 33.86 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. The upgraded system, dubbed Tianhe &minus;2A, should be completed in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-to-95-petaflops3.jpg 550w, https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/comparison-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/comparison-150x59.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px)  100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Details about the system upgrade were presented at the conference opening session. While the current system derives much of its performance from Intel Knights Corner co-processors, the new system swaps these PCI devices out for custom-made 4-way MATRIX-200o boards, with each chip providing 2.46 Teraflops of peak performance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/2017\/09\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-supercomputer-95-petaflops\/\">https:\/\/insidehpc.com\/2017\/09\/china-upgrading-milky-way-2-su...petaflops\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some breaking news from the IHPC Forum in Guangzhou today. Researchers in China are busy upgrading the MilkyWay 2 (Tianhe-2) system to nearly 95 Petaflops (peak). This should nearly double the performance of the system, which is currently ranked at #2 on TOP500 with 33.86 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. The upgraded system, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}