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Chinese
supercomputers to use homemade microchips
Tuesday March 08, 2011 09:00:49 AM,
IANS
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Beijing:
China-made supercomputers will stop using foreign microchips in
2011 and start using their own core components by the end of this
year, one of the country's leading scientists has said.
Hu Weiwu, chief developer of the Loongson series of microchips at
the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), said the "Dawning 6000"
supercomputer, jointly developed by the Institute of Computing
Technology of the CAS and the Dawning Information Industry Company
(DIIC), will adopt homemade microchips for the first time as its
core component.
The new supercomputer will have a computing speed of more than
1,000 trillion operations a second, China Daily reported. It will
be available as early as this summer.
Making supercomputers with China-made microchips is one of the
nation's major science and technology projects.
Three organisations - the Institute of Computing Technology of the
CAS, Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology and the National
University of Defense Technology (NUDT) - have their own
supercomputer projects.
At present, the Tianhe-1A, developed by the NUDT in Hunan, is the
fastest supercomputer in the world. However, Tianhe-1A largely
runs on 14336 CPUs made by Intel, and 7186 graphics processing
units from Nvidia, two US chip-makers.
Hu said there will be difficulties ahead as there are few
applications developed for these supercomputers.
"We have enough supercomputers in China but still can't fully
utilise them," he said.
"There are lots of scientific questions waiting for answers from
supercomputer calculation. But we still need good algorithm and
good data collection to make it work," Hu said.
"Each year the electricity bill could cost more than 10 million
yuan ($1.5 million) for one supercomputer, and we are only using
one tenth of its capacity at most," Hu said.
Hu said although the China-made CPUs have improved since they were
first produced in 2002, they have a long way to go to compete with
US chip-makers.
Supercomputers can be used on national defence projects as well as
scientific projects in geology, meteorology and medicine.
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