The supercomputer, named Xingyun, doubles the speed of "Tianhe-1," previously the fastest one in China developed by the National University of Defense Technology last October, said Li Jun, president of the Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd. "Its peak performance reaches nearly three quadrillion calculations per second, three times of the peak speed of Tianhe-1," Xinhua news agency quoted Li as saying. Experts say one second of its work may take a whole day for a dual-core personal computer. Xingyun is the server part of "Dawning 6000," jointly developed by the company, Chinese Academy of Sciences Calculation Institution, and the South China Supercomputing Center, which aims to meet the application demand of "cloud computing," or more specifically scientific computing, intelligent Internet searching and DNA sequencing. By the end of this year, "Dawning 6000" will be delivered to National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen of China's southern Guangdong Province for computing and information services in southern China, including Hong Kong and Macao. The Beijing-based Dawning Information Industry Co., Ltd., founded in 1995, is a leading company in the field of high-performance computer.
China's reputation for cheap labour at stake?
Recent protests and the official response to a spate of suicides at Foxconn Technology, a maker of electronics for industry giants such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, suggests China's leaders are at least tacitly allowing workers to talk back. Over the weekend, the top communist party leader in Guangdong province visited Foxconn's sprawling factory where 10 workers have committed suicide and urged the company to adopt a ``better, more humane working environment'' for its mostly young workers, state media reported. ``The 80s and 90s generation workers need more care and respect and need to be motivated to work with enthusiasm,'' said Guangdong party chief Wang Yang, who has backed efforts to shift Guangdong up the industrial ladder away from reliance on exports of low tech, cheap products. That transition is taking hold across China. Manufacturers, under pressure to deliver low prices in home markets, are struggling to attract and keep young workers who, brought up in an era of relative affluence, are proving less willing than earlier generations to ``eat bitterness'' by putting up with miserable working environments and poor wages.
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