Chinese Supercomputer World’s Fastest

A Chinese supercomputer has been named the world’s fastest. According to a list of the speediest computers in the world, published by TOP500, the Chinese Sunway TaihuLight is number one. The 93 petaflop computer runs on a Linux-based operating system and is capable of 93,000 trillion calculations per second, which is double the speed of last year’s top computer, the Tianhe-2, also Chinese. "Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with...

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