Crunching the Universe: China Takes World Lead With Fastest Supercomputer
October 28th, 2010
China revealed the Tianhe-1A, a new supercomputer revealed that has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), as measured by the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest system in China and in the world today, according to an NVIDIA statement. The the Tianhe-1A trumps China's older supercomputer, the curiously named, Milky Way 1.
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