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Nvidia announced yesterday that its chips are powering the "Tianhe-1A" Chinese supercomputer that achieved 2.507 petaflops, beating a U.S.-based system that is currently ranked No. 1 on the June Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The Chinese system is a unique hybrid design that uses approximately 7,000 Nvidia graphics chips along with 14,000 Intel Xeon CPUs. The graphics chips are what give the system the extra oomph to catapult it into the top supercomputer spot.
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I had heard of the new Chinese supercomputer but had never heard before of using this many Intel CPUs combined with 7,000 Nvidia Graphics chips. I was trying to picture what that would look like in one room and how many fans would be blowing to keep the heat it would generate moving away from the system so it could continue to operate ongoing without interruption.
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