New Chinese supercomputer twice as fast as previous best
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029912
BBC : China’s new Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi has first place on Top500’s latest list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At 93 petaflops (93 trillion floating point operations per second), the computer is twice as fast as the previous top computer—China’s Tianhe-2—and three times as efficient. Sunway TaihuLight will be used primarily for advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting, and data analytics. For the first time, China has surpassed the US in the number of computers on the Top500 list, 167 to 165. China has two machines in the top 10—the top two. However, the US holds four of the first 10 spots.
