The Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest supercomputer as of November 2017 ranked number one in the Top500 list. It has a speed of 93 petaflops on LINPACK benchmark rating (1 petaflop=10 raised by 15) . FLOP stands for “floating point per second”.
It is in China and was designed by National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering And Technology. It is located at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi in Jiangsu province of China.
China beat the US in global rankings done by website Top500 which tracks the supercomputers. Benchmark tests are done by experts from Germany and US.
Some 202 supercomputers are in China as compared to 143 in US. China leads not only in numbers but aggregate computing power.
List of top 5 is as under
- Sunway TaihuLight……. China
- Tianhe-2 (Milky way-2)….. China
- Piz Daint… Switzerland
- Gyoukou…… Japan
- Titan…….USA
The fastest supercomputer is being used in climate modelling and science research.
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