So, let's talk about the Russian "intelligence" and Chinese "stupidity" not unfounded, but with facts in hand.
According to the rating of Top-500 supercomputers, at the beginning of this year, the fastest Chinese car was Tianhe-1 ("Milky Way"), which ranks fifth in the world ranking (563 teraflops).
However, already in November, the Tianhe-1A system, located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin in China, topped the Top 500 supercomputers in the world, with a maximum performance of 2.57 Pflop / s. That is one and a half times more than the fastest of the former leaders - the Jaguar supercomputer located in the USA.
The third place was taken by the system also from China - Nebulae with a performance of 1.27 Pflop / s.
The fastest conditionally Russian supercomputer is deep in the ass, in 17th place - the maximum performance of the Lomonosov system from T-Platforms is 350 Teraflop / s.
But even that is not bad. The authors of the rating noted that the latest edition includes 42 supercomputers from China - the second largest number of systems after the United States. Russia is simply not visible there.
But supercomputers are needed for a reason. They are considered important tasks - from nuclear physics to genetics and pharmacology, from aircraft flow to plasma stabilization methods. The number of supercomputers is some indicator of how intensively practical development and research at a truly cutting-edge level is being carried out in a country.
As you can see, everything is fine with this in China. And in Russia it is terrible.
Worse, China already has its own processors, which are quite competitive with world leaders. I'm talking about the Loongson line.
The latest novelty there is Loongson 3, which differs from Loongson 2F consumer PCs already available on the market by hardware translation of x86 instructions and includes many cores (from 4 to 16) capable of processing commands independently.
The quad-core version with an estimated clock speed of 1-1, 2 GHz and two 64-bit nodes for performing floating point operations in each core should find use in a wide range of products - from desktop computers to set-top boxes (additional instructions are implemented in the chip specifically for optimization media playback).
The octa-core version is likely to become the "heart" of the supercomputer. It will include four regular cores and four GStera coprocessors designed for intensive mathematical calculations. These elements are extremely important because they perform better on the math of the Linpack benchmark, which uses linear algebra to measure the performance of the fastest mainframes (based on Linpack and the Top 500).
Microprocessor Report analyst Tom Huffhill said bluntly that even if this Chinese processor does not show record performance, it will only be a matter of time before the Chinese will have a chip for supercomputers that is competitive in comparison with the "Western" ones.
And what are they doing in Russia at this time? Where, God forgive me, Babayan and his Elbrus (processors for which, by the way, are still ordered in China)?
Yes, here is this percentage of Elbrus-2000 - made in China at the TSMC plant. It even outperformed the 500 MHz Intel Pentium III in SPEC benchmarks. Cool as much horror. Especially in comparison with the Chinese, who have long gone beyond the level of gigahertz performance in processors with a minimum power release, working for hours on batteries in communicators.
Debian GNU / Linux, gNewSense, Gentoo Linux, Red Flag Linux, NetBSD evbmips / gdium, OpenBSD OpenBSD / loongson have already been ported to work on the Chinese Loongson 2F processor. And, of course, Windows CE and Google Android have been ported. Work is underway to prepare a Slackware Linux version.
Computers based on this Chinese processor - from desktops to tablets a la iPad to powerful communicators - are already available, and at ridiculous prices. Let's say iPad-like models with touch screens start at $ 100.
What is ported for Elbrus-2000? Never mind. What devices are available for sale on it? Yes, none, since the cost of the processor is just crazy.
Worse, Loongson 3 already has hardware translation of x86 instructions, which allows you to run Windows and anything else designed for Intel x86 architecture on it.
Will Elbrus have an x86 hardware translator? Alas, this does not even figure in the distant future.
Why is the Chinese "stupidity" so successful, while the Russian "mind" in fact produces results that cannot be called otherwise than ridiculous, whatever one may say?
Maybe it's time to remove the ambition and start looking more closely at the experience of your Chinese colleagues?
