Tianhe-1A was built by Dawning Information Industry, a state-owned company located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China.
Tianhe-1A uses Nvidia’s Tesla GPUs for its processor. But this American technology is only a temporary help because Dawning is still on the development process of its own processor known as the Loongson. The goal of this development is to produce an all-Chinese supercomputer.
Dawning’s innovation has already overtaken the market shares of IBM and HP in China. Tianhe-1A runs parallel with many hard drives available now. Dawning expects a growing market share as they attract companies in the financial, manufacturing, design and pharmaceutical industries. But the Chinese government would want to take advantage of this technology to bolster the defense industry.