Once a seething cauldron of competition, the twice-yearly Top500 listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has grown nearly stagnant of late.
Exascale leader hangs in balance
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers – exascale – there is no guarantee of who will finish first.
China leads with top supercomputer, Saudi’s best offering ranked 59th
China has maintained its lead in the biannual ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, with the Chinese National University of Defense Technology’s Tianhe-2 system bringing 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) to the table.
China surpassing US with 54.9 petaflop supercomputer
China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., …