The site "Top 500" has published its ranking of the most powerful computers in the world. It is China that is widely hoisted on top with the supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight.
The China grew by leaps and bounds in technology. According to the latest ranking of "Top 500", which recency the 500 most powerful computers in the world, the supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight which now occupies the top spot and handily.
China has the most powerful supercomputer
The Tianhe-2, which occupied first place in the ranking of the 500 most powerful computers in the world has just been dethroned by Sunway TaihuLight, a 100% Chinese system. The former is also of Chinese design but has signed to processors Intel . The TaihuLight, he is equipped with Chinese processors.
Sunway TaihuLight is three times more powerful than the system which held the previous record.It is capable of 93 million billion operations per second, or 93 petaflops. It is fitted with 41,000 processors, each with 260 cores. Giving a computer system of 10.6 million cores. However, according to the website "top500", power consumption is described as " excellent ". It uses 15.3 megawatts while Tianhe-2 uses 17.8 megawatts to its power 33 petaflops.
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