World’s fastest supercomputer:

The TOP 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was updated on June 20 with a new Chinese supercomputer at the top. Called Sunway TaihuLight, the machine replaced Tianhe-2, a Chinese supercomputer that had claimed the top spot on the previous six editions of the list. Sunway TaihuLight can perform 93 quadrillion calculations per second, or petaflops. With 10,649,600 computing cores, it is almost three times as fast as Tianhe-2, which can handle 33.86 petaflops. Moreover, unlike the Intel-based Tianhe-2, the Sunway TaihuLight uses processors designed and made in China.