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China's delight at Sunway TaihuLight being named the world's fastest supercomputer was made all the more sweeter as it marks a shift from using "off-the-shelf" processors to domestic alternatives.
It's no longer big news that a Chinese supercomputer dominates a list of the world's fastest machines these days, but a No. 1 system built using entirely made- in-China chips instead of U.S. technology is no doubt a milestone.
China's new supercomputing system, Sunway-TaihuLight, was named the world's fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany on Monday.
South Korea plans to spend over 100 billion won (87 million U.S. dollars) in fiscal funds for the next 10 years to develop supercomputers having a better capability than Google's Go-playing computer program AlphaGo, the country's ICT ministry said Monday.
China has shut down supercomputer Tianhe-1A due to the blast in Tianjin Wednesday night.
A new 97-mln-pound (157 million U.S. dollars) supercomputer will be built in Britain to predict disruptive weather events more effectively, the Met Office has announced on Tuesday.
China's Tianhe-2, the world's fastest supercomputer, is boosting science and technological development at home and abroad.
The hacking of a New Zealand government research institution's supercomputer has brought home the country's vulnerability to global cyber-security threats, an expert said Monday.
Chinese scientists announced Monday that China has once again built the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second, surpassing the U.S. Titan supercomputer.
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