China’s pride, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, has been listed on the TOP 500 list as the world’s fastest supercomputer in the past three years. (Photo : www.tgdaily.com)
The Top500 has released its latest ranking at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on July 13, naming China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer as the world's fastest supercomputer.
Top500 is a group of researchers who have been publishing a list of the world's most powerful commercially available computer systems twice a year since June 1993.
According to Xinhua News Agency, it was the fifth consecutive time that Tianhe-2 has dominated the world's fastest supercomputer list since June 2013.
The National University of Defense Technology based in Changsha designed and made the supercomputer, which can perform 33.86 quadrillion calculations (petaflops) per second or 33.86 thousand million million, or 33.86 followed by 15 zeroes.
The report said that Tianhe-2 was relocated to the national supercomputing center in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, in Nov. 2013.
The report added that the supercomputer also provides high performance computing and cloud computing services for almost 400 clients at home and abroad, aside from being used as aid in gene analysis, development of new drugs, and the aerodynamic calculation of large aircraft and high-speed trains, among others.
Xinhua reported in June that Chinese tech company Dawning Information Industry has started developing a new generation supercomputer that is capable of over a hundred thousand trillion computing operations per second.
Li said that the Dawning 7000 was designed to better meet market demands for high-speed communication networks, large-scale storage and application software. He added that the computer will be launched within two years.
However, Li Jun, the company's president, denied the reports that the company has been into the phases of trial production and assembly.
Dawning, the developer of Nebulae or Dawning 6000, ranked second in the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers in 2010 for its measured Linpack value of 1.271 petaflop times a second.
