The National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou houses
Tianhe-2
Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (, i.e. 'Milky Way 2') is a 33.86- petaflops supercomputer located in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China. It was developed by a team of 1,300 scientists and engineers.
It was the world's fastest supercomputer ...
, which is currently the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world, with a measured 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second).
Tianhe-2 is operated by the
National University of Defence Technology, and owned by the Chinese government.
See also
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Supercomputing in China
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National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin The National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin () is located at the National Defense Science and Technology University in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, China. One of the fastest supercomputers in the world (see "The TOP500 Project" list of sup ...
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National Supercomputing Center (Shenzhen)
The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen houses the second fastest machine in China, and the third fastest in the world. In May 2010 the Nebulae computer in Shenzhen placed second on the TOP500 supercomputer list, after the Cray computer at ...
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Shanghai Supercomputer Center
References
External links
National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Computer science institutes in China
Science and technology in China
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputing in China
2014 establishments in China
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