Neowin News Feed for: Sunway

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer comes first in TOP500 rankings

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:46:01 +0000

Japan has ranked first place of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. It came ahead of two U.S.-based systems and two Chinese-built systems. Japan's Fugaku system also ranked ninth for energy efficiency. Read more...

TOP500 November 2018 list released, U.S.' Summit number one

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:02:02 +0000

The United States has maintained it perch in first place on the TOP500 list. China came in third and fourth place while we wait for its in development exascale supercomputer to make an appearance. Read more...

U.S. one-ups China in supercomputing race with IBM-made machine

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:06:02 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy and IBM this week announced Summit, their latest and greatest supercomputer. Its purported 200 quadrillion calculations per second would make it the fastest in the world. Read more...

China has record number of supercomputers in TOP500

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:06:01 +0000

The TOP500 list for November has been released and China, as ever, is doing very well. The U.S., on the other hand, has gotten a bit of a battering with losses on multiple fronts, to China and Japan. Read more...

China plans new supercomputer for June 2018

Paul Hill — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 09:46:01 +0000

China has announced that its first exascale supercomputer, which will be eight times faster than the Sunway TaihuLight, will be ready by June 2018. China came first place in the 2017 TOP500 list. Read more...

China maintains top places on TOP500 supercomputer rankings, US pushed to fourth

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:46:01 +0000

China's TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 supercomputers have maintained their number one and two spots on the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. The US has been pushed out of the top three after two decades. Read more...

China wants to build an exascale supercomputer prototype this year

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:02:02 +0000

China wants to start working on an exascale prototype supercomputer this year. Being at least ten times more powerful than today's top performer, the exascale device won't be operational until 2020. Read more...