Recently, the Dawning 5000, a supercomputer with a processing capacity over 100 teraflops per second, was developed jointly by the CAS Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) and Dawning Information Industry Co., Ltd.
The success achieves a peak computing power of 230 TFlop/s. Based on the LINPACK method, the capacity of the novel computer reaches 160 TFlop/s. It's also high-lighted by its low cost and low power consumption.
This new breakthrough enables China to catch up with the world most advanced technologies to build and maintain high-performance computers, and makes China the second country after the US to be able to create commercial supercomputers with performance over 100 teraflops.
Dawning company was founded in 1995 as a high-tech enterprise, relying on the technology support from the ICT, the National Research Center for Intelligent Computing System and the National Center for High-performance Computing. In 2006, the company established its industrial base in Tianjin, raising new expectations in China's high-performance computer industry.
