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New Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest system

Xinhua, June 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

A new Chinese supercomputer on Monday was named the fastest system in the 47th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's top supercomputers.

Sunway TaihuLight, with a new system built entirely using processors designed and made in China topped the list of the Top 500 supercomputers with 93 quadrillion calculations per second, according to the newest edition of the list which was announced at the 2016 International Supercomputing Conference here.

Sunway TaihuLight replaced Tianhe-2, an Intel-based Chinese supercomputer that has claimed the No. 1 spot on the past six TOP500 lists.

The system was developed by the Chinese National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology and installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.

It is also the first time that China has led the list with 167 systems, overtaking the United States which has 165. Endit