#supercomputer | beautiful, choreographic but far from being in the super computer rankings
Ranking by Teraflops
Because supercomputers can achieve over one quadrillion flops, and consumer devices are much less powerful, I’ve used teraflops as comparison metric. 1 teraflop = 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) flops.
Supercomputer Fugaku was completed in March 2021, and is officially the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It’s used for various applications, including weather simulations and innovative drug discovery.
Sunway Taihulight is officially China’s top supercomputer and fourth most powerful in the world. That said, some experts believe that the country is already operating two much more powerful systems, based on data from anonymous sources.
As you can see, the most advanced consumer devices do not come close to supercomputing power. For example, it would take the combined power of 4,000 Nvidia Titan RTX graphics cards (the most powerful consumer card available) to measure up to the Fugaku.
Upcoming Supercomputers
One of China’s unrevealed supercomputers is supposedly named Oceanlite, and is a successor to Sunway Taihulight. It’s believed to have reached 1.3 exaflops, or 1.3 quintillion flops. The following table makes it easier to follow all of these big numbers.
#1 #japan Supercomputer Fugaku 537,212
#2 #USA Summit 200,795
#3 #USA Sierra 125,712
#4 #China Sunway Taihulight 125,436
#5 #USA Perlmutter 93,750
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