China develops world's fastest server for big data queries

A company in China has developed the world's fastest server with the most cost-effective big data search capability, according to big data testing service TPCBenchmark Express-BigBench.

The I620-G30 server developed by Sugon [Photo: sugon.com]

The server, called I620-G30, can complete 3,383.95 big data searches per minute at the cost of 307.86 US dollars per search.

The new server can complete a search twice as fast and at half the price of what was possible in the last century, said Qin Xiaoning, vice president of Sugon.

Sugon is a leader in high-performance computing, server, storage, and cloud computing and big data in China.