China has developed its second generation super server system that is capable of conducting 20 billion floating-point operations per second. Dawning 2000 is the brainchild of the National Research Centre for Intelligent Computing Systems. Chief designer, Xu Zhiwei said: Overall, the system meets advanced international standards. Some aspects of it, such as the cluster operating system, the integrated parallel programming environment and the server software accumulation are in fact world leaders.
