China beats America to the world’s fastest supercomputer title

China's supercomputer Tianhe-2 retains the Top500 fastest Supercomputer title.

China’s supercomputer Tianhe-2 retains the Top500 fastest Supercomputer title.

China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer – almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. record holder

The Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way 2, was developed by the National University of Defense Technology in China’s Changsha city and is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second.
That’s the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second, with the average everyday computer performing around 100 million per second

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