China’s Tianhe-2 Retains Supercomputer Crown

Once again tops the Top500 list

According to the latest edition of Top500, a biannual list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, China’s Tianhe-2 (“Milky Way-2” in English) continues to be the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. This is the fifth time in a row that the 3,120,000-core beast developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has topped the list.

This isn’t surprising in the least if one considers what Top500’s Jack …read more

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