The Sunway BlueLight () is a Chinese massively parallel

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

. It is the first publicly announced PFLOPS supercomputer using Sunway processors solely developed by the People's Republic of China.JOHN MARKOFF, The New York Times.
China Has Homemade Supercomputer Gain
" October 28, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011.Cade Metz, WIRED.
China Builds World-Class Supercomputer Sans Intel, AMD
" October 31, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011. It ranked #2 in the 2011 China HPC Top100, #14 on the November 2011 TOP500 list, and #39 on the November 2011 Green500 List. The machine was installed at

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() in September 2011 and was developed by

National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

() and supported by Technology Department () 863 project. The water-cooled 9-rack system has 8704

ShenWei SW1600 Sunway, or Shenwei, (Chinese: ), is a series of computer microprocessors, developed by Jiangnan Computing Lab () in Wuxi, China. It uses a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, but details are still sparse. History The Sunway se ...

processors (For the Top100 run 8575 CPUs were used, at 975 MHz each) organized as 34 super nodes (each consisting of 256 compute nodes), 150 TB main memory, 2 PB external storage, peak performance of 1.07016 PFLOPS, sustained performance of 795.9 TFLOPS, LINPACK efficiency 74.37%, and total power consumption 1074 kW. The Sunway BlueLight is ranked 103rd (ranked highest at 14th when it appeared on the list in November 2011; then 65th in the November 2014)

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