Supercomputer on way

TIANJIN: China is planning to develop a prototype of an exascale computer, considered the next frontier of supercomputers, by the end of this year, a developer has announced.

“A complete computing system of the exascale supercomputer and its applications can only be expected in 2020, and will be 200 times more powerful than the country’s first petaflop computer Tianhe-1 that was recognised as the world’s fastest in 2010,” said Zhang Ting, application engineer with the Tianjin-based National Supercomputer Centre.

Exascale computers are capable of at least 1 quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second.