When it comes to supercomputer , the U.S. used to rule the roost . But these day its position is drop off — while China is surge ahead .
How bad is the job ? This bad , according to the new Top500 list , which rounds up supercomputer performance around the world every six months :
China nearly treble the number of systems on the latest leaning , while the issue of system in the United States has fallen to the lowest level since the TOP500 lean was created in 1993 . China is also carving out a swelled ploughshare as a manufacturer of high-pitched performance computer with multiple Chinese maker becoming more combat-ready in this field .
The number of U.S. supercomputer in the top 500 has now drop to just 200 , down from 231 in July . Meanwhile , China now boasts 109 systems in the list , nearly three times the 37 it had in the top 500 just six months ago .
China alsomaintains its top spot on the leaning with Tianhe-2 , which can perform a astonishing 33.86 quadrillion calculations per second . Meanwhile , Titan , a Cray XK7 supercomputer installed atOak Ridge National Laboratory , sustain its second place . It can execute just 17.59 quadrillion calculations per second — half as many as China ’s top dog .
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