High energy & nuclear physics

Rmax = 33862 (i.e., 33,9 Pflops) – Rpeak = 54902 (computing efficiency : 61,7 %)

3,120,000 cores – Memory: 1.375 PB – Disk: 12,4 PB –fat-tree based Interconnection Network

16000 computer nodes

1 node = 2 Intel (12 cores) Ivy Bridge Xeon + 3 (57 cores) Xeon Phi co-procs + 88GB memory shared by the Ivy Bridges procs + 8 GB memory shared by the Xeon Phi chips

Power:17,8 MW (1,9 Tflops/kW – 1,9 Gflops/W … only!)

« Tianhe-2 operation for 1 hour is equivalent to 1.3 billion people calculator operating one thousand years » (best-news.us – assertion not checked)

Top500.org

• Top500.org

• performance development
• logarithmic progression! (x10 in 3years)
• clusters, clusters (86%)!
• 51% in industry
• max power efficiency: 5,3 Gflops/W
• #500: 153 TFlops! – Total : 309 Pflops
• poster Top500
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