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China Claims Supercomputer Powers Surpasses U.s., Europe
China's official Xinhua News Agency said the Tianhe supercomputer has reached a level of processing power unmatched by peers in the U.S. and Europe.
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China's Tianhe supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin has been running at full capacity, and its processing power far exceeds that of its U.S. and European counterparts, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
In its first stage, Tianhe achieved a peak speed of 563.1 teraflops, making it the fifth-fastest supercomputing system in the world at the time.
The National Supercomputer Center says the upgraded Tianhe-1A, completed six years ago with a theoretical peak speed of 4,700 teraflops, has achieved a first-ever test result of 2,566 teraflops. The Tianhe-1 is currently performing tasks for China's oil exploration, high-end equipment manufacturing, bio-pharmaceutical, aerospace, new energy, and new materials projects.
The National Supercomputer Center last year announced plans to create a supercomputer that will top Tianhe-1's processing powers by a maximum factor of 200 before 2020.
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