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How much did this thing cost to build, and was it funded solely by the government or do some corporations have an interest in it as well? Ham Pastrami ( talk) 04:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
The article doesn't say which computer it replaced as the world's fastest supercomputer. Does anyone know? Could it be added in the article or in a succession box below, like we have on, for example, the worlds tallest building? Cheers, Calistemon ( talk) 23:23, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
The interconnect, the infrastructure that connects all the processors together is a proprietary one of Chinese design. The interconnect has approximately twice the bandwidth of InfiniBand, a US interconnect used in HPC. [1] [2] There's absolutely no mention of this in the Wikipedia article, I think there should be, to show that it isn't all off the shelf parts. 87.113.181.217 ( talk) 09:47, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm just curious to know what operating system is installed on Tianhe-I, if anybody knows, that would be lovely to be added to the article, 谢谢!Comment added by User:141.24.172.1
Perhaps a variant of Linux developed by PRC to suit their needs. [3] [4] Please don't forget to sign your comments with four ~~~~ :) -- Zvn ( talk) 20:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
windows 95 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.221.189 ( talk) 04:23, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
A simple way to communicate the power of this computer might be to say how much more powerful it is than an office computer. Any ideas ? 89.194.193.190 ( talk) 23:25, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
It lists that 2.5 petaflops is its peak performance. From what I understand this is its nominal performance, its peak is much higher. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.30.226.124 ( talk) 02:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
But can it run Crysis?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.221.189 ( talk) 04:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Should title of the article be renamed "Tianhe-1" instead of "Tianhe-I"?--- Now wiki ( talk) 02:30, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Anyone else getting very large font on this specific article and not others? Tried it with multiple browsers and it seems to persist.
207.112.39.86 ( talk) 15:59, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
The quoted number of processors in the Tianhe-I paragraph seems incorrect:
"It is now equipped with 500,854 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs"
500,000 Xeon CPUs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.246.99 ( talk) 20:02, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
How many libraries of congress does it hold? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.89.27 ( talk) 23:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
In the reference cited, Tianhe is given an alternative translation as "Milky Way". I recognize that there are other ways of rendering "Milky Way" in Chinese, not only "Sky river" and "Silver river", but also "Star river" 星河 xīng hé - see, for example, Oxford Chinese Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-920761-9. Do you have any reference which backs up your claim that Tianhe does not mean Milky Way? What could it possibly refer to other than the Milky Way? TomS TDotO ( talk) 12:25, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Another alternative names of milk way, may be poetry or obsolete, is Han/汉, and 清汉, 银汉, 天汉, 云汉 also. Note that Han means Chinese people as well.-- 刻意(Kèyì) 04:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm not going to revert the recent change from "thousand billion" to "million billion" (in the long scale). But it is confusing and we ought to be sure to get this right. When we say "quadrillion" (in the short scale), we mean "thousand trillion" (short scale) or "million billion" (short scale) or "thousand million million" or "thousand billion" (long scale). I think. I'm not so confident as to change this (again) without a bit of discussion. I thought that I was making it clearer, but I seem not to have accomplished the hoped-for clarification. We should be able to get everybody to agree on this, shouldn't we? TomS TDotO ( talk) 18:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
I have serious concerns about Wikipedia swallowing whole the "Top500" ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers. Linpack is a highly simplistic way of measuring how powerful a supercomputer is. The real measure of a supercomputer's power is how much breakthrough science it is achieving. The Chinese have succeeded in building the world's fastest Linpack machine, which anyone can do with enough money. Whether the Tianhe-I is capable of the most break-through science is a completely different matter. -- Westwind273 ( talk) 22:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
How much did this thing cost to build, and was it funded solely by the government or do some corporations have an interest in it as well? Ham Pastrami ( talk) 04:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
The article doesn't say which computer it replaced as the world's fastest supercomputer. Does anyone know? Could it be added in the article or in a succession box below, like we have on, for example, the worlds tallest building? Cheers, Calistemon ( talk) 23:23, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
The interconnect, the infrastructure that connects all the processors together is a proprietary one of Chinese design. The interconnect has approximately twice the bandwidth of InfiniBand, a US interconnect used in HPC. [1] [2] There's absolutely no mention of this in the Wikipedia article, I think there should be, to show that it isn't all off the shelf parts. 87.113.181.217 ( talk) 09:47, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm just curious to know what operating system is installed on Tianhe-I, if anybody knows, that would be lovely to be added to the article, 谢谢!Comment added by User:141.24.172.1
Perhaps a variant of Linux developed by PRC to suit their needs. [3] [4] Please don't forget to sign your comments with four ~~~~ :) -- Zvn ( talk) 20:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
windows 95 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.221.189 ( talk) 04:23, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
A simple way to communicate the power of this computer might be to say how much more powerful it is than an office computer. Any ideas ? 89.194.193.190 ( talk) 23:25, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
It lists that 2.5 petaflops is its peak performance. From what I understand this is its nominal performance, its peak is much higher. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.30.226.124 ( talk) 02:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
But can it run Crysis?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.221.189 ( talk) 04:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Should title of the article be renamed "Tianhe-1" instead of "Tianhe-I"?--- Now wiki ( talk) 02:30, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Anyone else getting very large font on this specific article and not others? Tried it with multiple browsers and it seems to persist.
207.112.39.86 ( talk) 15:59, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
The quoted number of processors in the Tianhe-I paragraph seems incorrect:
"It is now equipped with 500,854 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs"
500,000 Xeon CPUs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.246.99 ( talk) 20:02, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
How many libraries of congress does it hold? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.89.27 ( talk) 23:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
In the reference cited, Tianhe is given an alternative translation as "Milky Way". I recognize that there are other ways of rendering "Milky Way" in Chinese, not only "Sky river" and "Silver river", but also "Star river" 星河 xīng hé - see, for example, Oxford Chinese Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-920761-9. Do you have any reference which backs up your claim that Tianhe does not mean Milky Way? What could it possibly refer to other than the Milky Way? TomS TDotO ( talk) 12:25, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Another alternative names of milk way, may be poetry or obsolete, is Han/汉, and 清汉, 银汉, 天汉, 云汉 also. Note that Han means Chinese people as well.-- 刻意(Kèyì) 04:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm not going to revert the recent change from "thousand billion" to "million billion" (in the long scale). But it is confusing and we ought to be sure to get this right. When we say "quadrillion" (in the short scale), we mean "thousand trillion" (short scale) or "million billion" (short scale) or "thousand million million" or "thousand billion" (long scale). I think. I'm not so confident as to change this (again) without a bit of discussion. I thought that I was making it clearer, but I seem not to have accomplished the hoped-for clarification. We should be able to get everybody to agree on this, shouldn't we? TomS TDotO ( talk) 18:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
I have serious concerns about Wikipedia swallowing whole the "Top500" ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers. Linpack is a highly simplistic way of measuring how powerful a supercomputer is. The real measure of a supercomputer's power is how much breakthrough science it is achieving. The Chinese have succeeded in building the world's fastest Linpack machine, which anyone can do with enough money. Whether the Tianhe-I is capable of the most break-through science is a completely different matter. -- Westwind273 ( talk) 22:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)