China has the worlds fastest super computer again.

China has unveiled the Tianhe-1A which is now the worlds fastest super computer.

Tianhe-1A Supercomputer

The best part of this machine is it is made out of mostly consumer grade materials. Consisting of 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs consuming 4.04 megawatts of power this machine can hit a whopping 2.507 petaflops.

Written by Jason Percival

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