http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/01/content_10589401.htm
*China-made supercomputer to be installed in Shanghai*
TIANJIN, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Dawning 5000A, a China-made supercomputer,
is expected to be installed in Shanghai in April, its developer said
Thursday.
The supercomputer, with a peak capability of more than 200 trillion
FLOPS (Floating-point operations per second), will be used for information
processing and fundamental scientific research at the Shanghai Supercomputer
Center (SSC), said Li Jun, president of Tianjin-based Dawning Information
Industry Co.
The SSC, founded in 2000, is a high-performance public computation
platform.
Dawning 5000A will help with weather forecasting, construction of seabed
tunnels, environmental protection, large passenger aircraft production and
earthquake predictions, according to the SSC.
Dawning 5000A covers a floor space of 75 square meters and consumes 700
kilowatts per hour. It was paid for by the Ministry of Science and
Technology and Shanghai Municipal Government.
Even with expensive imported AMD chips, Dawning 5000A cost only200
million yuan (29 million U.S. dollars). That price is significantly lower
than what the U.S. Department of Energy spent on IBM "Roadrunner," which
cost 100 million U.S. dollars.
Chinese computing scientists built the country's first supercomputer in
1995.
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