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IBM pledges to beat China's Sunway TaihuLight with 200-petaflop supercomputer

Graeme Burton

27 June 2016 •

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IBM's Titan supercomputer, which Summit will overtake, is still third in the TOP500 rankings

Promised for delivery in 2018, the Summit supercomputer will use IBM Power9 microprocessors

After China last week took top spot in the TOP500 rankings of the world's most powerful supercomputers, with the 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight, IBM has revealed more details about its forthcoming supercomputer...

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