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China starts building supercomputing center

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Central China's Hunan Province began building the country's third National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) on Sunday, where the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, will be installed.

Designed to handle one quadrillion computing operations per second, the NSCC in Changsha will add to the world's eight quadrillion-level supercomputing centers and national labs, said Du Zhanyuan, vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The new NSCC will be housed in Hunan University in Changsha, capital of Hunan, and the construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2011, said Du.

Earlier this month, the Tianhe-1A at the NSCC in Tianjin, which is capable of 2.57 quadrillion computing operations per second, was certified as the world's fastest supercomputer.

Once completed, the Tianhe-1A at the NSCC in Changsha will be able to provide supercomputing services to the weather forecast, scientific research, biological pharmaceuticals, animation design and other complex work in central China, said Xu Shousheng, provincial governor of Hunan.

"The setting up of the NSCC in Changsha will raise the innovative level of Hunan Province and of central China," said Xu.

Apart from the ongoing-construction, China has built two supercomputing centers which are located in Tianjin and Shenzhen, respectively.

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Central China starts building supercomputing center
 
I mean how the Chinese media is all over supercomputers while they hardly make it into Western news.

It's barely mentioned in Canadian news but I have seen coverage of Chinese supercomputers all over the American news. They are rightly concerned because China is a strong candidate for challenging the dominance of Western supercomputers.
 
Wondering why Austria and New Zealand is on that list?

Is their traffic system etc managed by supercomputers ?

New Zealand offers supercomputing services for it's universities.
Also Weta studio is in Wellington, which needs to use supercomputers for movie effects, their works includes Avatar, Lord of the Rings and King Kong, among others.
 
Wondering why Austria and New Zealand is on that list?

Is their traffic system etc managed by supercomputers ?

also that pie is a graph of the number of super computers not the processing speed, nation a could have 1 computer and nation be could have 20 but A could have one at 1 petraflop and B could have 20 at 1 gigaflop, theres big difference.
 

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