China developing exascale supercomputer
June 26, 2017 Category Science & technology, Weekly
China is developing a third prototype exascale computer, also known as a super supercomputer, and plans to launch it by June 2018. The Sunway exascale computer prototype is being developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) and the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan, Shandong province. The NRCPC also led the team that developed the Sunway Taihu Light, crowned the world’s fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in 2016 and 2017 in Frankfurt. An exascale computer is able to execute a quintillion calculations per second, about eight times faster than the Sunway Taihu Light. The increase in computational speed will advance research in such areas as climate change, space science, medicine and oceanology. Exascale supercomputers are expected to hit the market by 2020
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