United States is putting tripping which is considered the world’s most powerful computer. While trying to make a it is exceeded, has decided that the Chinese Tianhe-2 did not get the necessary chips to further increase its potency.
The US government refused to allow Intel to help China to upgrade this model.
Intel applied for a license to export tens of thousands of chips that would enhance further this authentic digital brain, called Tianhe-2.
The Commerce Department refused appealing to their concern over alleged nuclear research is being conducted with said machine.
And, coincidentally or not, parallel Intel has signed a deal worth US $ 200 million to the US government to build another supercomputer in one of their laboratories.
Provide chips to China is considered “contrary” to US interests, say US authorities.
33,000 trillion calculations per second
The Tianhe-2 uses 80,000 Intel Xeon chips to generate a computational capacity of over 33 petaflops.
How much is a metaflop? Just know that equates to perform more than one quadrillion operations per second.
According Top 500, an organization that evaluates supercomputer, the Tianhe-2 has been the most powerful computer in the world in the last 18 months.
This year the Chinese device must undergo a series of improvements to boost their numerical operations to 110 petaflops.
The upgrade would depend heavily on the new Intel Xeon chips.
The chipmaker reported to US authorities for their participation in the program of renovation and urged him to ask for an export license.
“explosive nuclear activities”
A note published by the US Department of Commerce reported that rejected the application for Intel to export chips for Tianhe-2 and other Chinese supercomputers because these machines were being used for “explosive nuclear activities.”
The institution responsible for the export regulations US reveals that this technology to “design, develop or manufacture” nuclear weapons are used.
The note added that participation in it is “acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of United States. “
In a statement to the news channel IDG, the manufacturer said:” Intel comply with the notice and requested the license, which was denied We met US law “
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It is believed that China is now accelerating the development of their own chips to boost the power of its four supercomputers and complete the program of improvements.
Although Intel has denied the chance to sell their chips Xeon China, the company has signed a major agreement to build the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
This computer is expected to reach peak performance of 180 petaflops.
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