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Sunway-TaihuLight outperforms Tianhe-2 as world's fastest supercomputer (8)

(Xinhua)    09:53, June 21, 2016

CHINA-NEW SUPERCOMPUTER-FASTEST SYSTEM (CN)

WUXI, June 20, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on June 16, 2016 shows monitoring panel of Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer, in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province. Performing 93 quadrillion calculations per second, Sunway TaihuLight dethroned China's Tianhe-2 from the top in a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2, which has a performance of 33.86 quadrillion calculations per second, or petaflop/s. The new system was developed by the Chinese National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering &Technology and installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)


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(Editor:Huang Jin,Bianji)

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