The Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Photo: Xinhua The Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Photo: Xinhua
The Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Photo: Xinhua

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China expands its share of fastest supercomputers although US remains No 1 when it comes to speed

  • The number of Top500 systems installed in China reached 227, up from 219 six months ago

Topic |   China technology
Meng Jing
Meng Jing

Updated: 9:29pm, 19 Nov, 2019

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The Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Photo: Xinhua The Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Photo: Xinhua
The Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2. Photo: Xinhua
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