Andre Yoskowitz
6 Jul 2013 19:44
China has returned to the number one spot for world's top supercomputer for the first time since 2010.
As part of the biannually updated Top500 Supercomputer list, China's National University of Defense Technology's Tianhe-2 (a.k.a. "Milky Way 2") came out on top, with performance of 33.86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark.
33.86 petaflops was over twice the performance of the top-rated computer of the last list.
The Milky Way 2 supercomputer runs on 48,000 Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and 32,000 Xeon processors. Combined, the computer has 3,120,000 computing cores.
2012's champion, the Titan, was a Cray XK7 system with 17.59 petaflop/s performance.
The Titan is currently housed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.