China Rules the Supercomputer Roost

[ergophobe]

Fifteen years ago, China claimed zero of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Today, it not only has more than everyone else—including the United States—but its best machine boasts speeds five times faster the best the US can muster. And, in a first, it achieves those speeds with purely China-made chips. src: [wired.com...]

Insane details: 125 petaflops, 10,649,600 cores, and 1.31 petabytes of primary memory

[keyplyr]

it achieves those speeds with purely China-made chips

But 20 minutes later it can't remember doing so.