From AP:
China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US record holder and underlining the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
The Tianhe-2, developed by the National University of Defence Technology in central China’s Changsha city, is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second, according to the semi-annual TOP500 official listing of the world’s fastest supercomputers. That’s the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second.
The computer uses a total of 3.12 million processor cores, using Intel’s Ivy Bridge and Xeon Phi chips to perform calculations.
The Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, knocks the US Department of Energy’s Titan machine off the no. 1 spot. That machine achieved 17.59 petaflops per second.
It’ll be back.
