A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine, previously claimed the top spot, highlights China as a rising power in science and technology.
Semi-annual TOP500 listing said Monday announced the world's fastest supercomputer Tianhe -2 by the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, central China's development can be sustained 33.86 1000000000000000 times per second calculation. This is equivalent to 33,860 trillion calculations per second.
Tianhe -2, which means the Galaxy -2, knocking the U.S. Department of Titan closed on the 1st machine. It achieves 17.59 petaflops per second.
Supercomputer is used for complex tasks, such as weather systems modeling, simulation and design of nuclear explosions jetliner.
This is the second time, has been named China the world's fastest computer. November 2010, the Tianhe-1A, Tianhe -2 predecessor have such an honor in front, Japan's K computer replaced a few months later in the TOP500 ranking, ranked by three in the United States and Germany, a computer scientist at the University of planning.
Tianhe -2 shows how to take advantage of China's rapid economic growth and a substantial increase in research spending to join the United States, Europe and Japan in the global technology elite.
"Most of the features of the system being developed in China, they use only Intel's main computing part," TOP500 editor Jack Dongarra said in a press release, May, visited the Guangzhou Tianhe -2 facilities. "In other words, interconnection, operating system, front-end processor and software mainly China."
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