Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
It's the second time China has been named as having built the world's fastest supercomputer.
BEIJING (AP) - China has built the world s fastest computer for a second time, beating the U.S. s Titan machine.
The semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world s fastest supercomputers says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha city in central China is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second. That s the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second. The list was released Monday.
The Tianhe-2 knocks the U.S. Department of Energy s Titan machine off the no. 1 spot. It achieved 17.59 petaflops per second.
It s the second time China has been named as having built the world s fastest supercomputer. In 2010, predecessor Tianhe-1A gained that honor.
Supercomputers are used for complex work such as modeling weather systems, simulating nuclear explosions and designing jetliners.
