before china made the world's fastest super computer...
back whe nthey just started making em... it wasn't china's own chip.... US sourced chips.... now though ofc its a different story.
The top 10 supercomputers from the June 2016 Top500.org list.
Name Country Teraflops Power (kW)
Sunway TaihuLight China 93,015 15,371
Tianhe-2 China 33,863 17,808
Titan United States 17,590 8,209
Sequoia United States 17,173 7890
K Computer Japan 10,510 12,660
Mira United States 8,587 3,945
Trinity United States 8,101 N/A
Piz Daint Switzerland 6,271 2,325
Hazel Hen Germany 5,640 N/A
Shaheen II Saudi Arabia 5,537 2,834
For
the last three years, China has topped the
Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers with its massive Tianhe-2. But today (20 June 2016), the Top500 group announced that
Tianhe-2 has been ousted by another Chinese supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight. The new machine, which is based at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, can perform a
key benchmark test called Linpack at 93 petaflops (a thousand trillion floating point operations per second)—nearly three times the speed of the Tianhe-2.
The new rankings further solidify China’s status as a supercomputing force to be reckoned with. In addition to this new machine, the United States has, for the first time,
lost its status as the country with the most systems on the list; China now has 167 systems to the U.S.’s 165.
Unlike the Tianhe-2, which used Intel Xeon chips to take the top spot, the processors inside the Sunway TaihuLight are homegrown. At each of the machine’s 40,960 nodes, the supercomputer uses a new 260-core chip, designed by the Shanghai High Performance IC Design Center.