“DeepComp 6800” supercomputer to contribute to High Tech Olympics

2004/05/15
Towards 2008 is compiled by Simon Cousins

China's fastest supercomputer, the Lenovo DeepComp 3800 (operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Computer Network Information Centre) is to be pressed into service for Beijing's High Tech Olympics. The facility's principal duties will be complex weather and environmental modeling.

The supercomputer, based on Itanium2 CPUs in an innovative Chinese-designed architecture, is currently ranked 14th fastest in the world by the authorative "Top 500" list maintained by the University of Mannheim. DeepComp 3200's performance of greater than 4 TFlops is exceeded only by supercomputers in the USA and Japan, and leads a field of dozens of other supercomputing-capable nations. The supercomputer's maker, Lenovo, recently became the first ever Chinese TOP sponsor of the IOC.



	Article featured in Business Beijing, May 2004 Publication sponsored by Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Development & Reform Commission of Beijing Municipality, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (Beijing Sub-Council)