Nebulae (computer)

Nebulae (Chinese: 星雲) is a petascale supercomputer located at the National Supercomputing Center (Shenzhen) in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Built from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel Xeon X5650 processors and Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, it has a peak performance of 1.271 petaflops using the LINPACK benchmark suite.^[1] Nebulae was ranked the second most powerful computer in the world in the June 2010 list of the fastest supercomputers according to TOP500.^[2] Nebulae has a theoretical peak performance of 2.9843 petaflops. It is currently the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world and China's second most powerful.

See also

	Computer Science portal
	Information technology portal

• Computer science
• Computing
• Supercomputer centers in China
• TOP500

References

1. ^ "China’s new Nebulae Supercomputer is No. 2, right on the Tail of ORNL’s Jaguar in Newest TOP500 List of Fastest Supercomputers". TOP500. 2010-05-28. http://top500.org/lists/2010/06/press-release. Retrieved 2010-06-01. 
2. ^ "June 2010". TOP500. http://www.top500.org/lists/2010/06. Retrieved 2010-06-01. 

Further reading

• "National Supercomputing Center starts construction in Shenzhen", People's Daily, November 17, 2009
• Fildes, Jonathan, "China aims to become supercomputer superpower", BBC News, 31 May 2010

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