Tianhe-1 is now world’s fastest supercomputer, and it is not "Made in US". Chinese system has finally got the #1 position in the world of supercomputers. Though US is still #1 in terms of number of supercomputers in Top 500. China now has 42 computers in the list, which is more than Japan, France, Germany and Britain.
The Tianhe-1 has achieved a computing speed of 2,570 trillion calculations per second. It has been developed by National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China. The Tianhe-1 runs on Intel EM64T Xeon X56xx (Westmere-EP) 2930 MHz (11.72 GFlops) processor with 229376 GB Memory and Linux operating system. China’s Nebulae system is at #3. Earlier, USA’s Jaguar was on the first spot which has a speed of 1,750 trillion calculations per second.
India’s EKA, developed by Computational Research Laboratories TATA SONS, is at #47. It is the only Indian supercomputer in Top 100. India has total four systems in the Top500.
With Tianhe-1, China has proved its capabilities in the world of supercomputing and emerged as a super power. The complete list of Top500 supercomputers can be checked here.
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