The 48th edition of the TOP500 list (Nov. 2016 version) saw China and United States pacing each other for supercomputing supremacy.
Both nations now claim 171 systems apiece in the latest rankings, accounting for two-thirds of the list. However,
China has maintained its dominance at the top of the list with the same number 1 and 2 systems from six months ago: Sunway TaihuLight, at 93 petaflops, and Tianhe-2, at 34 petaflops. This latest edition of the TOP500 was announced Monday, November 14, at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
After US and China, Germany claims the most systems with 32, followed by Japan with 27, France with 20, and the UK with 17.
A year ago the US was the clear leader with 200 systems, while China had 108, Japan had 37, Germany had 33, and both France and the UK had 18.
In addition to matching each other in system count in the latest rankings, China and the US are running neck and neck in aggregate Linpack performance. The US holds the narrowest of leads, with 33.9 percent of the total; China is second with 33.3 percent. The total performance of all 500 computers on the list is now 672 petaflops, a 60 percent increase from a year ago.
https://www.top500.org/lists/2016/11/
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I personally feel sad about this news. China's Sunway TaihuLight's maintaining of the Top 1 ranking means we humanbeing made no progress in faster computing in the past six months.