Washington: China’s Tianhe-2 has been named the world’s fastest computer for the third year in a row at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany.
The Tianhe-2 was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology. Its predecessor, the Tianhe-1A, held the top spot on the supercomputer list in 2010, the Mashable reported. Of the 500 systems on the list, 37 offer performances above the 1 petaflops range, nearly all of them use multicore processors, and 85% of them are running Intel processors. As for the systems themselves, 36% are built by HP and 33% by IBM. Cray builds 10%.Â
Overall, the United States has by far the most super computers out of the top 500 systems.