China retains supercomputer crown in latest Top500 list

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Tianhe-2 - which translates as Milky Way 2 - was developed by China's National University of Defence Technology in Guangzhou, based in the country's south-eastern Guandong province.

It uses a mixture of processors made by Intel as well as custom-made CPUs (central processing units) designed by the university itself.

Its Linpack score is nearly double that of the next supercomputer in the list - Titan, the US Department of Energy's system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
However, one expert said it was still too early to know whether the Chinese system would be able to outperform its US counterpart in real-world tasks.

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Double the speed? Better order some knockoffs of their CPUs.