That is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, which can perform 2.5 million billion calculations in a second, or 40% of the speed of the supercomputer Cray XT5 Jaguar (1.7 million billion calculations in 1 second).
Part of Tianhe-1A supercomputer .
According to AFP , Tianhe-1A is located in Tianjin city, built by the National University of National Defense Technology. In 2009, it achieved a speed of 500 trillion calculations in 1 second.
The supercomputer is currently top of the list of the world's fastest supercomputers voted by the University of Tennessee, but the official list is only released on November 1.
In Chinese, Tianhe-1A means ' Galaxy 1 '. Officials involved in the supercomputing project said it would be used in the animation and biomedical research industry, but AFP said it could also be used to analyze the weather and find Search for oil.
