5. Supercomputers.
Photo taken on June 20, 2016 shows Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer, in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province. [Photo/Xinhua] |
In June, China debuted its new supercomputer called Sunway TaihuLight, replacing its precedent Tianhe-2, which topped the list of the world's fastest supercomputer for three years.
Photo taken on June 16, 2016 shows interchanger cables of Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer, in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Sunway TaihuLight can perform 93 quadrillion calculations per second, or petaflop/s, twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Two of the fastest supercomputers in the world are now from China.