Dawning Information Industry
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Dawning Information Industry (Shuguang, 曙光) is a supercomputer
manufacturer in the People's Republic of China
. Its Dawning 4000A and Dawning 5000A clusters were both ranked tenth in June 2004 and November 2008 TOP500
lists respectively. Dawning has manufactured some of the fastest supercomputers in the world including Nebulae
, the second fastest computer in the June 2010 TOP500 list.
and utilizes Motorola 88100
CPUs (4 total) and 88200 CPUs (8 total), and over 20 were built. The operating system is UNIX V.
list, capable of 806.1 billion FLOPS. The system, at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center
, utilizes over 2,560 AMD Opteron processors, and can reach speeds of 8 teraflops.
interconnecting network. Dawning 5000A occupies an area of 75 square meters and the power consumption is 700 kW. The general designer is Dr. Sun Ninghui (孙凝晖) and the unit price of Dawning 5000A is less than 100 million RMBY (~15 million USD). The supercomputer is capable of 180 teraflops and received state certification in Jun 2008. Ranked 10th in the November 2008 TOP500
list, it's also the largest system at that time, using Windows HPC Server 2008
for this benchmark. This system is also installed at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center
and running with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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CPUs instead. It was reported that Shanghai Supercomputer Center required Microsoft Windows support whereas Loongson only ran under Linux
. Dawning claimed that Dawning 5000L may use Loongson 3 processors with petaflop performance, which is expected by 2010.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
manufacturer in the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. Its Dawning 4000A and Dawning 5000A clusters were both ranked tenth in June 2004 and November 2008 TOP500
TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year...
lists respectively. Dawning has manufactured some of the fastest supercomputers in the world including Nebulae
Nebulae (computer)
Nebulae is a petascale supercomputer located at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Built from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel Xeon X5650 processors and Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, it has a peak performance of 1.271 petaflops using the LINPACK benchmark suite...
, the second fastest computer in the June 2010 TOP500 list.
Dawning No.1
The very first member of Dawning family is Dawning No.1 (Shuguang Yihao, 曙光一号), which received state certification in October 1993. This supercomputer achieved 640 million FLOPSFLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
and utilizes Motorola 88100
MC88100
The MC88100 is a microprocessor developed by Motorola that implemented 88000 instruction set architecture. Announced in 1988, the MC88100 was the first 88000 implementation. It was succeeded by the MC88110 in the early 1990s....
CPUs (4 total) and 88200 CPUs (8 total), and over 20 were built. The operating system is UNIX V.
Dawning 1000
Originally named as Dawning No.2 (Shuguang Erhao, 曙光二号) but subsequently renamed as Dawning 1000, this is the second generation of the family, and received state certification on May 11, 1995. This is the first Chinese built supercomputer that is capable of 1 billion FLOPS. This series of the Dawning family consists of the Dawning 1000A and 1000L.Dawning 2000
The third member of the Dawning family is Dawning 2000, which passed state certification on Jan 28, 2000. The number of CPUs used was greatly increased to 164 in comparison to older models, and like earlier models, the operating system is UNIX. This series consisted of the Dawning 2000-I and II.Dawning 3000
The fourth member of the Dawning family is Dawning 3000, which passed state certification on Mar 9, 2001. The number of CPU increased to 280, and the system consists of ten 2-meter tall racks, weighing 5 tons total. Power consumption is 25 kW, and one of the tasks it was used for was the part of human genome mapping that China was responsible for.Dawning 4000A
The fifth member of the Dawning family, Dawning 4000A, debuted as one of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world, on the TOP500TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year...
list, capable of 806.1 billion FLOPS. The system, at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center
Shanghai Supercomputer Center
Shanghai Supercomputer Center , founded on December 2000, was invested by Shanghai Municipal Government. With its world-class facilities and quality services, Shanghai Supercomputer Center offers high performance computing, technical support and technical consulting services to wide range of...
, utilizes over 2,560 AMD Opteron processors, and can reach speeds of 8 teraflops.
Dawning 5000A
The newest member of the Dawning family is Dawning 5000A. It integrated 7,680 1.9 GHz AMD Opteron Quad-core processors, resulting in 30,720 cores, and InfinibandInfiniBand
InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable...
interconnecting network. Dawning 5000A occupies an area of 75 square meters and the power consumption is 700 kW. The general designer is Dr. Sun Ninghui (孙凝晖) and the unit price of Dawning 5000A is less than 100 million RMBY (~15 million USD). The supercomputer is capable of 180 teraflops and received state certification in Jun 2008. Ranked 10th in the November 2008 TOP500
TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year...
list, it's also the largest system at that time, using Windows HPC Server 2008
Windows HPC Server 2008
Windows HPC Server 2008, released by Microsoft on 22 September 2008, is the successor product to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Like WCCS, Windows HPC Server 2008 is designed for high-end applications that require high performance computing clusters . This version of the server software is...
for this benchmark. This system is also installed at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center
Shanghai Supercomputer Center
Shanghai Supercomputer Center , founded on December 2000, was invested by Shanghai Municipal Government. With its world-class facilities and quality services, Shanghai Supercomputer Center offers high performance computing, technical support and technical consulting services to wide range of...
and running with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while...
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Dawning 5000L
The Dawning 5000 series supercomputer planned to use Loongson 3 processors which has 16 cores each and 8MB L2 shared cache. However, when the 5000A was revealed in June 2008, it used AMD K10AMD K10
The AMD Family 10h is a microprocessor microarchitecture by AMD. Though there were once reports that the K10 had been canceled, the first third-generation Opteron products for servers were launched on September 10, 2007, with the Phenom processors for desktops following and launching on November...
CPUs instead. It was reported that Shanghai Supercomputer Center required Microsoft Windows support whereas Loongson only ran under Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
. Dawning claimed that Dawning 5000L may use Loongson 3 processors with petaflop performance, which is expected by 2010.