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Future Super Dragon Super Server

"Super Dragon" researchers are developing cutting-edge super servers with indigenous multi-core processors, a scientist announced in Beijing yesterday.

They are at the core of an ambitious plan nicknamed "Super Dragon."

A top research team with the Institute of Computing Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences is creating indigenous multi-core central processing units. These are expected to replace CPUs that are now equipped with Chinese super servers, said Meng Dan, a principal investigator with the ICT.

"The new type of CPUs, called Godson IIIs, will keep China in step with trends in multi-core technologies," Meng said.

Godson III CPUs and the Suma series super servers, which are also being developed by ICT, are at the center of the ambitious program.

The most powerful Chinese super server, Suma 4000A, was ranked the world's 10th fastest in computing performance in 2004 by the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the world's top 500 super servers.

Suma 4000A had the highest computing speed of 11 trillion times per second and 8 trillion times per second in line with the Linpack Benchmark, which measures server performance. However, Suma 4000A used US-made AMD CPUs.

"Current CPU technologies came to a dead end and researchers need to find a way out," said Li Guojie, ICT director.

"Our energy-saving technologies in designing CPUs will have great potential in keeping up with a few IT giants in multi-core platforms," said Li, China's leading IT expert, also a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

"It's of course risky to carry out the five-year Super Dragon plan," Li said, "but we're confident of creating a perfect combination of Chinese-made CPUs and super servers."

With a computing speed of more than 1,000 trillion times per second, the Super Dragon might augur the super servers of the future.

Such a sophisticated server will cost at least 1 billion yuan (US$124 million) in research and development, an IT expert estimated.

The most powerful super servers at present have crossed the threshold of 100 trillion times per second in computing performance.

In September 2002, the ICT manufactured the first Chinese-made CPUs, coded Godson I. The enhanced Godson III, equivalent to Intel's Pentium IV, will be marketed shortly. However, Godson CPUs are mainly used for system-on-chip electronic appliances and PCs.

In response to China's lucrative server market, the ICT developed its own Suma series a decade ago.? CPUs of all Suma servers to date have been bought from Intel, IBM or AMD.

(Xinhua News Agency March 4, 2006)

 

 

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