中国天河2号将成全球最快超级计算机_BEC初级作文

中国天河2号将成全球最快超级计算机

他说，美国政府最近对超级计算机进行了零散的投资，而中国的投资一直很稳定。西蒙说，在美国长期占据领导地位的一些领域，中国人已经在参与竞争并且取得成功。

No official price has been released for the Tianhe-2 system, which was constructed with help from the Chinese company Inspur. But some U.S. researchers put the likely cost at $200 million to $300 million.

天河2号系统的官方价格还没有公布。天河2号系统是在中国公司浪潮集团(Inspur Co.)的协助下建造的。但是美国的一些研究人员认为价格可能在2亿美元到3亿美元之间。

Tianhe-2 is a big endorsement for a new Intel product line. The Silicon Valley company's standard microprocessors have been used in supercomputers since the 1990s. But some big machines lately have been enhanced with chips called GPUs, or graphics processing units, from companies such as Nvidia Corp. NVDA -2.14%

天河2号是对英特尔一个新产品系列的巨大认可。自从上世纪90年代以来，这家硅谷公司的标准微处理器就一直被用于超级计算机中。但是一些大型计算机近来使用了叫做“图形处理单元”(GPU)的芯片，并因此得到性能上的提升，这些GPU来自英伟达(Nvidia Corp.)等公司。

Intel has responded with the Xeon Phi, a specialized chip with as many as 61 calculating engines. The new Chinese system has 48,000 of those chips, as well as 32,000 conventional Xeon chips based on a forthcoming design not yet generally available, according to Mr. Dongarra's report.