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China’s Tianhe-1A created by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has been crowned as the world’s fastest Supercomputer. The fully operational supercomputer was revealed at the HPC 2010 China and runs at a record 2.507 petaflops, measured by LINPACK benchmark.

Tianhe-1A has managed to achieve this extraordinary feat by integrating a whopping 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs that consumes 4.04 megawatts as compared to 12 megawatts if the supercomputer was powered only by CPUs (more than 50,000 CPUs).

Tianhe-1A will be operated as an open access system for large scale scientific computations.

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