{"id":4279,"date":"2018-11-12T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/us-overtakes-china-in-top-supercomputer-list\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:02:17","slug":"us-overtakes-china-in-top-supercomputer-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/us-overtakes-china-in-top-supercomputer-list\/","title":{"rendered":"US overtakes China in top supercomputer list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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China has been pushed into third place on a list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n

The latest list by Top 500,<\/a> published twice a year, puts two US machines – Summit and Sierra – in the top two places. The US has five entries in the top 10, with other entries from Switzerland, Germany and Japan.<\/p>\n

However, overall China has 227 machines in the top 500, while the US has 109. <\/p>\n

Summit can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second.<\/p>\n

Both Summit and Sierra were built by the tech giant IBM.<\/p>\n

China’s Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer,<\/a> which this time last year was the world’s most powerful machine, is now ranked at number three, while the country also has the fourth spot in the list.<\/p>\n

Sunway TaihuLight has a processing power of 93 petaflops, compared with Summit’s 200.<\/p>\n

It was nudged out of second place by Sierra, which is in the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and has a processing power of 94 petaflops. <\/p>\n

Supercomputers are typically large, expensive systems featuring tens of thousands of processors designed to carry out specialised calculation-intensive tasks, such as climate change studies, nuclear weapons simulations and weather forecasting. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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