Companies/NUDT
Changsha, China
NUDT
Chinese military university that designed the Tianhe systems and the TH Express interconnect family. Added to the US Entity List in 2015.
Systems this company appears in
- Systems
- 6
- Aggregate Rmax
- 67.62 PFlop/s
- Aggregate power
- 24.96 MW
- First appearance
- 2009-10
- Most recent
- 2014
- Concentration
- 91%
Aggregate Rmax is the sum of the systems this company supplies any part of. It is not revenue and not attributable share: an integrator and a memory vendor in the same machine both count its full FLOPS here. Attribution weighted by role is Phase 4.
Role breakdown
| Role | Systems | Rmax in those systems |
|---|---|---|
| Integrator | 6 | 67.62 PFlop/s |
| Accelerator | 1 | 61.44 PFlop/s |
| Interconnect | 4 | 66.29 PFlop/s |
| Storage | 1 | 61.44 PFlop/s |
Appearances
| System | Supplied as | Shipped under | Rmax | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tianhe-2 LvLiang Solution China · 2014 | Integrator, Interconnect | NUDT | 2.07 PFlop/s | #22 November 2014 → |
| Tianhe-2A China · 2013-06 | Accelerator, Integrator, Interconnect, Storage | NUDT | 61.44 PFlop/s | #191 June 2025 → |
| Tianhe-1A Guangzhou Solution China · 2012-06 | Integrator, Interconnect | NUDT | 211.70 TFlop/s | #119 November 2012 → |
| Tianhe-1A Hunan Solution China · 2011 | Integrator | NUDT | 771.70 TFlop/s | #30 November 2012 → |
| Tianhe-1A China · 2010-11 | Integrator, Interconnect | NUDT | 2.57 PFlop/s | #1 November 2010 → |
| Tianhe-1 China · 2009-10 | Integrator | NUDT | 563.10 TFlop/s | #5 November 2009 → |
Parts supplied
| Part | Category | Generation | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUDT Matrix-3000 | Accelerators | Matrix | 2021 |
| NUDT TH Express-3 | Interconnect | TH Express | 2019 |
| NUDT Matrix-2000 | Accelerators | Matrix | 2017 |
| NUDT TH Express-2 | Interconnect | TH Express | 2013 |
| H2FS | Storage | H2FS | 2013 |
| NUDT Arch interconnect | Interconnect | Arch | 2010 |
Related news
- Phytium added to the US Entity List · Federal RegisterExtends the substitution question from accelerators to the host CPU: Phytium's Arm server parts are the domestic option underneath the Tianhe line.
- NUDT and the Chinese national supercomputing centres added to the Entity List · Federal RegisterBlocked the planned Xeon Phi upgrade to Tianhe-2. The 2018 rebuild replaced the American accelerators with NUDT's own Matrix-2000 and the machine got faster.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.
Inside a node
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.