by the BBC
The Tianhe-1A supercomputer is about 50% faster than its closest rival. China has claimed the top spot on the list of the world’s supercomputers. The title has gone to China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2.5 thousand trillion calculations a second. To reach such high speeds the machine draws on more than 7,000 graphics processors and 14,000 Intel chips. The claim to be the fastest machine on the planet has been ratified by the Top 500 Organisation which maintains a list of the most powerful machines.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11644252
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