(Original title: U.S. government grants a lot of money! The US-China Supercomputer Competition is again climaxing)
In order to defeat China and other challengers on the track to the next generation of supercomputers, the U.S. government is doing its utmost.
On Thursday (June 15th), the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will award US$258 million in incentive funds to six US technology companies over the next three years as a core component of the new supercomputer development plan. The technical indicators set in the plan are at least 50 times higher than those of the most powerful systems in the United States today.
The six companies are AMD, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Nvidia.
In June last year, the U.S. government leaders warned at a technical meeting organized by the National Security Bureau and the Ministry of Energy that the US’s leading position in the supercomputer field is being seriously threatened by China. For a long time, governments in various countries have cracked down on passwords and developed nuclear weapons. They rely on these advanced systems, which are known for their high computational complexity. In commercial applications, supercomputers can also be used for petroleum exploration, automobile design, and other purposes.
Steve Conway, vice president of Hyperion Research, said that the United States and China, the European Union, and Japan are in a century "race", and all parties are trying their best to surpass each other in computing power.
The Titan, the fastest supercomputer in the United States, is manufactured by Cray Inc. and can handle 1.759 billion calculations per second, which is the same as the amount of computations that the 11.6 million iPad Pros run simultaneously. The entire supercomputer covers an area equivalent to a basketball court, and its power consumption is comparable to that of a small town.
By 2021, the United States plans to deliver at least one "over specification" system capable of performing 100 billion calculations per second (10 of 18 power). But this will also be a full night at least than the first system deployment schedule previously announced by China. According to the report of Hibernian, both countries plan to introduce mass-production "over specification" computing systems as early as 2023.
In June last year, China won the top spot in the two-year supercomputer 500 competition. More epoch-making, the Chinese supercomputer “Sunway TaihuLight†(Sunway TaihuLight) was the first superpower in mainland China that was designed by itself and did not use Intel’s core technology products. computer.
The continuous performance of the computer was 9.3 billion times per second, which surpassed the second place in China's "Tianhe II" (3.386 billion billion times per second), and it was far more than the aforementioned US "Titan" (1.759 trillion times / second).
In the current Top 500 list, the number of computers on the list in China surpassed the United States for the first time, leading by 167 pairs. In another ranking released in November 2016, China and the United States each had 171 systems on the list.
The incentive funds set up by the U.S. Department of Energy will be used by these six companies for in-depth research and development of "ultra-standard" computers. For example, Hewlett-Packard just showed a demonstrator based on a storage computing architecture "The Machine" last month. The funds provided by the government will help it further develop.
This verification machine is the largest and most expensive R&D project in Hewlett-Packard's history and can handle the same amount of data as up to 160 million books in the five National Assembly libraries.
Hyperion estimates that the cost of researching, developing, and purchasing an "over specification" system in the United States is approximately $300-500 million. The "Titan" system purchased by Oak Ridge National Laboratory from Cray Inc. is priced at approximately $97 million per unit. The U.S. government is naturally the preferred buyer of these systems, but technological breakthroughs in R&D tend to occur in cheaper forms among other electronic products.
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