China lays claim to fastest supercomputer

Shaun Nichols
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Tianhe-1 storms past Roadrunner with a whopping 2.507 petaflops

A supercomputing cluster in China is officially the fastest in the world. The recently upgraded Tianhe-1A cluster has reported a top performance of 2.507 petaflops, more than 2.5 trillion calculati...

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