China is not only the second largest economy in the world at the moment, trailing right behind the US at the moment, but the country also recently surprised high-performance US computing specialists as well by announcing the existence of the Sunway BlueLight MPP – a new supercomputer that was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, located in eastern China. The Sunway system is capable of performing up to 1,000 trillion calculations each second, where a petaflop will more or less place it among the 20 fastest computers in the world.
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